I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.