I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.
The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

