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My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.
Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a... →
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts... →
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension... →
Short stories have no net. The writer cannot take a leisurely sixty pages to get things moving, or make a side trip onto a barely related subject, or... →
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long... →
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies... →
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they... →