For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?
Fear and hope are alike underneath.
At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation’s instrument.
I realized I loved you, and I didn’t want to be married to somebody I didn’t love. I wanted to be married to you. It isn’t all that complicated.
You’re only good if you can do bad and decide not to.
She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.
Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.
With imagination, you can put something where nothing was.
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, ‘Am I doing something that’s worthwhile?’ Because even if you fail at it, you know that it’s worth doing.
Most things don’t stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that’s soon to come.
Maybe I’m a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people’s rights and their sense of patriotism.
I don’t have a very logical and orderly mind.
I had a Tourette’s period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn’t get out of my brain.
I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.
I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that’s just how it is.
I’m an equal opportunity reader – although I don’t much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty.
I’m kind of a distractible guy.
I’ve been mainly a happy boy in my life. I married the right girl and we did what we wanted to do.