I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident..

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool you….

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand,….

I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and ….

That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but….

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles.….

The fact that he had foamed at the mouth immediately upon dying, indicated that he had a great back jam of wishes and desires and truths that were ne….

I could wake her up and ask have you ever been to the ocean? but I already know that answer. She has not. You can tell. It would humble you I whisper….

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes..

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy..

I am a great believer in variations on the routine..

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on..