The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.