Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them—and then, the opportunity to choose.
Architecture is the art of organizing space for human purposes.
"You gave me a forever within the numbered days."