Gulls shriek plovers and sandpipers run up and down the beach. The tide is all the way out. The stone jetty from which people fish in the summer is covered with seals basking in the light.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

If you can dream it, it is possible to achieve it.

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

The NBA is fairy tale and real life mixed together.

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

I've been in perfect health and perfectly happy all my life. I don't take any pills; I just get up, clean up after my wife, and start typing every day.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.