Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

You cannot teach somebody to write a masterpiece, but you can certainly teach them how to improve their writing skills. And you can teach them that they can make their own voices more effective by being able to communicate more clearly and forcefully. It makes people feel more capable when they can write - for instance to make a request - of a politician - and when they are able to receive a reply.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.