I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

You must read a lot of personal essays - you needn't reinvent the wheel.

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.

Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience.

It bothers me when I can't, for example, remember a name. I don't know if it's pre-senility or whether there are too many names packed in our brains.

Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it better than adults) that in telling a lie, fidelity is everything.’