It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.
I'm sorry to say that far worse things have happened and the literature of the Holocaust is a witness to the capacity of the novel as a form.
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.
You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.
Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.
Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why. " There's no, "I hate white people. "
The Pledge of Allegiance says ". . . with liberty and justice for all. " What part of "all" don't you understand?