I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in.
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.
I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.
Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.