I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.
You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
No one ever does the last thing on their list.
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill...
That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the creative life is somehow self-indulgent. Artists and writers have to understan...