Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.