Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?