Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.
Because there is no better tool for writing than experience. It has very little to do with grammar and everything to do with knowing.
Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.
Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.
Mr. Obama is the only popular politician left in the world. He would win an election in any one of the G-20 countries, and his fellow world leaders will do anything to take home a touch of that reflected popularity.
When Americans come to London they usually say how much they love the history, the tradition, the splendid tumpty-tum of things whose very repetition has become their point.
Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
