[He] looked death in the eye and did not seem disappointed. - Orson Scott Card

We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.

What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.

“I always play with everybody,” said Honoré. “It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.”