Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.
It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.
Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.
The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?
What you believe in, is the life you decide.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.
Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.