Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.