I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.