I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.
Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.
Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.
Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.
And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.
The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
If I want to dress myself a certain way, I don't want to have to rely on someone else to do it for me.
Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
My new obsession is 'Storage Wars. ' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.