Adultery is not about sex or romance. Ultimately, it is about how little we mean to one another.
I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.
There is always something for which there is no accounting. Take, for example, the whole world.
Self-confidence can be crippling.
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.
The prose as such has to be singing the song the story is telling.