If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.
Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.
Never having something is different than having something and losing it.
If you can't be smart or funny, be brief.