Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.