We can never know what the future would have been.

Psychiatry is our new mythology,
In which we are all our
Gods and Monsters.

From "The Year of Magical Thinking" which I am reading tonight in lieu of "getting anything done" (a big step for me)

"I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right."

--Joan Didion

If I ever teach an introductory writing course again, this quote will be the centerpiece of the first day.

Regarding a fictional conversation with Will Shakespeare:

Sometimes dramaturgs need to save playwrights from pirates.