That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still g…

When I'm doing the first draft, I have a so-much-a-day schedule. But when I start putting it on the computer I can get carried away, and I try to go as far as …

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observat…

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husks.