Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 19, 1950
Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council..
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically..
The sparrow still falls..
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to ….
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief..
Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand..
It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single crazie….
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the p….
How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?.
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a ….
The characters Im most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You dont see them regularly anymore, but you s….
You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all….
Faced with the Divine, people took refuge in the banal, as though answering a cosmic multiple-choice question: If you saw a burning bush, would you (….
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, an….
Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. ….
The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any supe….
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy..
Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?" Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a w….
No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace..
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than….
The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you..