"I'm tempted to say that the top three reasons for hopelessness are rejection, rejection, rejection. But let's cast our net wider. 1) Not being able to write as well as we hoped we could. 2) Not being able to write at all. 3) Rejection."

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.135, Northwestern University Press

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.”

“If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.”

Source : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

“I’m a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.”

“The best things in life are free - and $19.95.”

“We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.”

“I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.”

“The Internet is an audience of one, a million times over.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 25, 2016