Adjustment Day

The joy of fiction is that it only has to smell true.

your audience will descend upon you, correcting you with all the yelping blood frenzy of a pack of rabid hyenas felling a lone wildebeest.

The measure of a man is not what he does for wages but what he does with his free time.

In the author’s masterpiece novels, she said, books such as The Shining and The Stand and The Green Mile, King had almost convinced white people of the majestic uncanny powers blacks kept under wraps.

Property is but the residue of true accomplishment.

“Fight Club taught each man that he had capacity beyond his greatest concept of himself.

“So this is like Fight Club?”

The author, John Steinbeck, had been a pussy, too afraid to make anything happen. He’d abandoned his characters to suffer.

This is not the only model, but it is the ideal for Americans, and the enduring success of any book is determined by how close the story hews to this pattern.

the remaining journalists convinced themselves that no absolute truths existed.