Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the reader can access it without tripping over the details.
I was a good student in school.
If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.