You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
“I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.”