In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It's my box. Put what you want in yours.

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight

His touch was like a bard's on his instrument, and it awakened a deep and mysterious music in my body.

Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.

From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

When I let some girl take me in her mouth I think this is what Jesus must feel like during communion.