The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
Politics always change. Stories never do.
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true, but I do think it probably causes some changes, some evolution in the way a person works. But on a day-by-day basis, I just still enjoy doing what I'm doing.
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.