At the end of the day, some authors will endure and most, including some very good ones, will not. Why do I think reading is important? It is such an effective medium between mind and mind. We think largely in words. A medium made only of words doesn't impose the barrier of any other medium. It is naked and unprotected communication. That's how you get pregnant. May you always be so.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.

We are the playthings of the gods.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.