Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.