Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around.

She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked at the attractive women he would look at...She had become him: she longed for these women. But she was also herself, and so she despised them. She lusted after them, but she also wanted to beat them up. A rapist. She had become a rapist, driving to work in a car.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.