Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

The big show is inside my head.

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.

You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,’I am here, I am here, I am here.