I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.
“Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.”
“I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.”