And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.
It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing wife or whether commercials make you cry. [...] it's about whether you step up. When something hard comes along. A man steps up. He doesn't dodge it ...
Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?
A painter,” he said, as though the word were an insult. “I’m a .” “You’re a ? a writer.” “What do you write?” “Stories. Books. A book. Fiction.” “Fiction. . That’s not writing.” “What do you write?” “I write the trut...
Fiction is true. It doesn’t have to factual to be true.
