There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

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.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

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

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.