There Are Many More Ways To Be

The Rest-the Vast Majority, Tens Of Thousands Of Days-are Unremarkable, Repetitive, Even Monotonous. We Glide Through Them Then Instantly Forget Them. We Tend Not To Think About This Arithmetic When We Look Back On Our Lives. We Remember The Handful Of Big Days And Throw Away The Rest. We Organize Our Long, Shapeless Lives Into Tidy Little Stories...but Our Lives Are Mostly Made Up Of Junk, Of Ordinary, Forgettable Days, And 'the End' Is Never The End.

There Are Many More Ways To Be Attractive Than To Be Beautiful.

The Interior Of A Teenager’s Mind Is An Endless War Between Stupid And Clever.

Crime And Legal Stories, Broadly Speaking, Are Just Where My Interest Happens To Lie.

You Can Write A Great Book And Be Ignored. Literary History Is Full Of Classics That Were Under-appreciated In Their Own Time.