When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know
I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.
Tin House magazine is a port in the storm for people who love language. It is unfailingly excellent, and committed to publishing new voices in addition to delivering freaky-fresh work from established writers.
I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.
America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,. . . and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.
At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.
I love football. I'll watch the NFL before I watch any NBA.
Some of [Donald Trump] comments can be interpreted as potentially reducing the threat of nuclear war. The major threat right now is right on the Russian border. Notice, not the Mexican border, the Russian border. And it's serious. He has made various statements moving towards reducing the tensions, accommodating Russian concerns and so on.
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen. ' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.