We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

The lead either forges an instant connection with the reader, or the package fails.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

I want nothing from You but to see You.

Sociological prose is generally written without images in an exact form for an academic audience.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.