When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

..why is it that in problematic situations almost everyone resorts to axioms and societal remedies that in actuality almost nobody believes in?...ask yourself, have you ever known anyone whose marriage was saved by a marriage counselor, whose drinking was cured by a psychiatrist, whose son was kept out of reform school by a social worker?

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

We all end up in the same place. Some sonner than others.

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.