I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
“Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.”
“I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.”