...that using social media to sell books is as pointless and unforgiving as selling bibles in a brothel.

...that while I love the writing of Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, and Hunter S. Thompson, I’d never want to have a meal with any of them.

...that the most extreme on both ends of the American political divide are Shadow Figures of one another, the only unifying element being an almost perverse need to tribe up and hate the other side passionately. Sharks and Jets, gang. Sharks and Jets.

...that the decision that “houseless” was more humane than “homeless” is why the rednecks hate our guts.

...that to be a writer, first you need to be a reader. He who does not read cannot write.