A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
From John Updike
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.
We are most alive when we're in love.
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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