You have to learn to read between the lies.
Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.
Familiarity isn't always a good thing. . . sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.
I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.
He shrugged, looking right into my eyes. "Right now, this is all I feel. " He held our intertwined hands up for me to see and I wanted to look away, but I couldn't break the hold his gaze had on me, like he could see more than anyone else saw. Things I couldn't see myself.
You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.
Worry lives a long way from rational thought. "---Self
I believe it is a good thing to get rid of Gaddafi. But does America have to do everything?