I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters.
What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.