“Americans have discovered fear.”
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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.