Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
Survival my only hope. Success my only revenge
You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.
On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.