I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the...
I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race...
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world then...
Whatever your supposed politics are - left right - if you put it in a human...
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is...
The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing....
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something it hasn't happened anymore.
The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words...
The universal human laws - need love for the beloved fear hunger periodic...
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize...
I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth...
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and...
Every night I go over what I did in the day in ethical or moral terms. Have...
My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and if you are...
People talk about 'getting rid of the old image' and I guess there's some...
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a...
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.