A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.
I would be looking up from a pool of blood and hearing my wife ask 'How do I reload this thing'.
I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.
There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
