The Word Career Is A Divisive Word.

Sometimes You Find That What Is Most Personal Is Also What Connects You Most Strongly With Others.

No Metaphor Reinvents The Job Of The Nurture Of Children Except To Muddy Or Mock.

A Joke Is Necessary At This Time.

There Isn't A Story Written That Isn't About Blood And Money. People And Their Relationship To Each Other Is The Blood, The Family. And How They Live, The Money Of It.

When I Was About Twenty-one, I Published A Few Poems. Maybe I Wrote A Couple Of Stories Before, But I Really Began To Write Stories In My Mid-thirties. My Kids Were Still Little, And They Were In School And Day Care, And I Had Begun To Think A Lot About Wanting To Tell Some Stories And Not Being Able To Do It In Poetry.