While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end.
David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.
The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.
When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.
On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
You live and you learn.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing. ) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.