There is no such thing as expecting too much.
John Berryman, put it, Something has been said for sobriety, but very little.
All five of our twentieth-century literature Nobel laureates were alcoholics—Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.
John Barleycorn’s final words: I’ve had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.
Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst
Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done...