How Do You Explain To Yourself The

I Used To Save All My Rejection Slips Because I Told Myself, One Day I'm Going To Autograph These And Auction Them. And Then I Lost The Box.

The System Shaves The Dice On The Side Of Those With Money And Power, And Anyone Who Believes Otherwise Deserves Anything That Happens To Him.

Louisiana Is A Fresh-air Mental Asylum.

If You Don't Compromise Your Gift, If You Write Each Day As Well As You Can, And Then Submit Your Work And Not Worry About It And Go On To The Next Piece, You Suddenly Find Oddly Enough That You're No More Interested In The Applause Than The Silence. You Don't Hear Either One Of Them. You Can Never Listen To The Naysayers. If You Do You Won't Survive.

I Feel Blessed In The Knowledge That I Probably Belong To The Last Generation That Will Remember What We Call "traditional America."