I'm Not A Person Who Worries Too

There Hasn't Been A Day In My Life Since I Started Latin In Ninth Grade That I Haven't Benefited By The Lives Of The Ancients.

Tragedy Massages The Human Ego Even As Comedy Deflates It. ... Tragedy Pits Us Against Large Foes And The Trip Wire Is Our Own Character. ... In Comedy We Fall Afoul Of One Another. Comedy Depends On Social Life, On Our Behavior In Groups. In Tragedy You Can Observe One Human Against The Gods. In Comedy It's One Human Versus Other Humans And Often One Man (or Woman If I'm Writing It) Against Her Own Worst Impulses.

The Writer's Job Is Not To Write A Novel, Hold It Up And Say, “here I Am,” But To Write A Novel, Hold It Up And Say, “here You Are.

[a Pariah Is] Something Like A Martyr With More Suffering And Less Class.

The Only People Are Those Who Don't Love Anybody.