Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

They can send death at once, but life is slower.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.