I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.