Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.