The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

I do have trouble with titles.

Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.