The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty … for a slice of real life, there’s always the Kessler.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life.

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

The funny thing is, about the time I let go of any aspiration toward worldly success, that's about the time I started writing decent work.

The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The mind that constantly wanders through the past is always a terrible mess.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.

Never run a bluff with a six-gun.

I hate fishes, they all look so miserable. 3 seconds later they will forget. And then I envy them.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars