Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag.

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

Like a said, there's a 2-year-old and a fiancée without a father.

Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly... The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are supreme.