One Kind Of Good Book Should Leave

An Understandable Hunger For Potential Clients Tempts Many [career Counseling Therapists] To Overpromise, Like Creative Writing Teachers Who, Out Of Greed Or Sentimentality, Sometimes Imply That All Of Their Students Could One Day Produce Worthwhile Literature, Rather Than Frankly Acknowledging The Troubling Truth, Anathema To A Democratic Society, That The Great Writer, Like The Contented Worker, Remains An Erratic And Anomalous Event, Immune To The Methods Of Factory Farming.

In A Secularising World, Art Has Replaced Religion As A Touchstone Of Our Reverence And Devotion.

People Only Get Really Interesting When They Start To Rattle The Bars Of Their Cages.

One Of The Better Guarantors Of Ending Up In A Good Relationship: An Advanced Capacity To Be Alone.

My Writing Always Came Out Of A Very Personal Place, Out Of An Attempt To Stay Sane.