You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way.
We kind of deny the stages of life.
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.