Good writing is rewriting.
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen—I may just miss my life.
In crowds we have unison, in groups harmony. We want the single voice but not the single note; that is the secret of the group.
Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the same gravitational forces that they used to in the pre-Trump era.
Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?
There's no truth anymore.