(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.

Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.

They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.

When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.