Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.
Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.
There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.