I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places..

I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes yo….

My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out..

Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of danc….

Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every c….

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy..

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?.

But once you publish a book, doesn’t it by definition become the realm of public discourse? Otherwise, wouldn’t we just write books and print them ou….

Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to finally laugh about Ira….

People really do change. Don't let anyone tell you differently. That the future does not conform to the past is not the exception, but the rule..

I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet..

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources..

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now..

Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer and ….

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good..

If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a ma….

The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully….

You have to smile, if you expect anybody to smile back..

It's not easy getting old, you know. Things become a lot less clear..

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. Y….

We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We ….