Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.
No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.
The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.
Surviving is much more painful than death.
She didn't strike me as a "crossword in ink" kind of girl