You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
Joyce Carol OatesThe suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.
Joyce Carol OatesWhere there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.
Joyce Carol Oates