Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

Rich children are always blond, Jocelyn goes. It has to do with vitamins.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.