Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
“The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.”
“I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print.”