There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down gather at home plate hugging and it's not just because they're winning it's that shared moment that feeling of - we enter the world alone we leave alone.
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration obviously perspiration doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Make no mistake adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict but it's a hell of a...
I don't necessarily love the sports per se I love the stories behind them....
You can't have an up without a down a right without a left a back without a...
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful...
I'd never had money growing up and it's never been that important to me...
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to...
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart...
I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...