Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.