...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.