Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.
From Jim Harrison
Either you can do what others want, or you can do what you want to do. That's an easy call.
Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.
Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.
The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it.
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