I Used To Save All

That's One Of The Great Advantages Of Age. You Can Say, I Don't Want To, I Don't Care, You Can Throw Temper Tantrums, And Nobody Minds.

And Like Most Middle-aged People Who Hear The Clock Ticking In Their Lives, I Had Come To Resent A Waste Or Theft Of My Time That Was Greater Than Any Theft Of My Goods Or Money.

I Think The "crime Novel" Has Replaced The Sociological Novel Of The 1930s. I Think The Progenitor Of That Tradition Is James M. Cain, Who In My View Is The Most Neglected Writer In American Literature.

..why Is It That In Problematic Situations Almost Everyone Resorts To Axioms And Societal Remedies That In Actuality Almost Nobody Believes In?...ask Yourself, Have You Ever Known Anyone Whose Marriage Was Saved By A Marriage Counselor, Whose Drinking Was Cured By A Psychiatrist, Whose Son Was Kept Out Of Reform School By A Social Worker?

If You Don't Compromise Your Gift, If You Write Each Day As Well As You Can, And Then Submit Your Work And Not Worry About It And Go On To The Next Piece, You Suddenly Find Oddly Enough That You're No More Interested In The Applause Than The Silence. You Don't Hear Either One Of Them. You Can Never Listen To The Naysayers. If You Do You Won't Survive.