My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.
Phillip LopateThe essay must be artistically rendered: You must keep the reader engaged, whether with wit, conflict, mischief, and/or yes, with honesty.
Phillip Lopate... I vowed that I would always respect the right of an individual to kill himself. Whether suicide was a moral or immoral act I no longer felt sure, but of the dignity of its intransigence I was convinced.
Phillip Lopate