My Father Was A Writer, So I

Forgiveness Means It Finally Becomes Unimportant That You Hit Back. You're Done. It Doesn't Necessarily Mean That You Want To Have Lunch With The Person. If You Keep Hitting Back, You Stay Trapped In The Nightmare.

Dogs Are The Closest We Come To Knowing The Divine Love Of God On This Side Of Eternity.

Laughter Is Carbonated Holiness.

Alice Adams Wrote A Sweet Note To Me After My First Novel Came Out When I Was 26, And I Was So Blown Away That I Sent Her A Bunch Of Stamps By Return Mail. I Have No Idea What I Was Thinking. It Was A Star-struck Impulse.

My Best Teachers Were Mess, Failure, Death, Mistakes, And The People I Hated, Including Myself.