A Short Story Is Something

You Can Be Interested In A Jane Smiley Novel Whether Or Not Anyone Says A Word. She Enters Into Her Characters Thoughts With Great Understanding And Depth.

Sleep Is Over-rated. Have You Ever Noticed How It's Always Recommended To People Anybody With Half A Brain Can See Need To Wake Up?

One Of The Odd Things About Middle Age, He Concluded, Was The Strange Decisions A Man Discovers He's Made By Not Really Making Them, Like Allowing Friends To Drift Away Through Simple Neglect.

The Line Of Gray Along The Horizon Is Brighter Now, And With The Coming Light I Feel A Certainty: That There Is, Despite Our Wild Imaginings, Only One Life. The Ghostly Others, No Matter How Real They Seem, No Matter How Badly We Need Them, Are Phantoms. The One Life We're Left With Is Sufficient To Fill And Refill Our Imperfect Hearts With Joy, And Then To Shatter Them. And It Never, Ever Lets Up.

I Want That Which Is Hilarious And That Which Is Heartbreaking To Occupy The Same Territory In The Book Because I Think They Very Often Occupy The Same Territory In Life, Much As We Try To Separate Them.