She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit.

Routine feeds the illusion of safety...

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.