Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
John Jeremiah SullivanReporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
John Jeremiah SullivanI think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you're somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. That's empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it.
John Jeremiah SullivanI'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
John Jeremiah Sullivan