Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it.
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.