A sign read: YOUR STAY HERE IS TOUCH AND GO—TOUCH AND YOU GO.
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear driv...
When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, they both cry. —Yiddish proverb
When Myron was ten years old, his father had taken him and his younger brother, Brad, to a game. Brad was five at the time. Dad had secured
This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
Still, death is a great teacher. It's just too harsh.I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy I mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that I could pass on to you. I didn't. The clich...
Some people are conduits for misery.
Love your parents - while we are busy growing up, they are growing old.
I can only be as happy as my saddest child. Do
His voice not only dripped sarcasm but seemed to have spent days marinated in it: How noble. Objection!
Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is so...
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything h...
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial kil...
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a...
What we so admire and call single minded dedication was really obsessive self-involvement. What in that exactly is admirable?
There are various theories about why the years seem to pass faster as you get older. The most popular is also the most obvious. As you get older, each year is a smaller percentage of your life. If you...
The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real...
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
Some things we pack away, stick in the back of the closet, never expect to see again—but we can’t quite make ourselves discard them. Like