not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.