Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night..

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend..

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass ….

But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions y….

I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how t….

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief..

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period..

Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is fu….

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion..

Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what t….

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us..

But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of ….

It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the n….

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers.

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods..

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction..

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are..

A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are semi-mysterious figures whos….

Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's more intense ….

Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we….

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business..