Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
I had been writing professionally since 1988
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf
This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.
Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it
I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
We are our own wicked gods with little 'g's' and big dicks, sadistic and constantly inflicting a slow demise.
The First Amendment was specifically designed for citizens to insult politicians. Libel laws were written to protect law students speaking out on political issues from getting called whores by Oxycontin addicts.
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.