I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

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

Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.