Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so.
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.
It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions - including literal slavery - all over the world.
Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.
We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.
Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love. . . I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.