Sometimes Life Seems So Painful It Hurts

The Hope For A Messiah Puts Too Much On That One Person. And You Think That Absolves You Of Personal Responsibility And You Don't Have To Act Because That Person Will Do It For You.

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.

I Look At The Great Poets Of The Soviet Union, Like Anna Akhmatova, Who Endured Far Worse Then Anything We've Seen Or Hopefully That We Will Ever See. If They Could Keep Writing And Keep A Voice Alive, Keep People Hopeful Through Their Poetry, Then I Would Be Ashamed To Stop And To Give In. It Would Be Really Self-indulgent, Unacceptable, And Inexcusable To Walk Away From It.

The Possibility Of Bringing White-collar Criminals To Justice Is Ever Receding Over The Horizon.