The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious.
Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there.
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.