Let's face it, writing is hell.

“I actually shivered at the insincerity that gripped me as I spoke these words: …”

“There he must, despite the anguish devouring his brain, present a face approxim…”

“my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a s…”

“What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to h…”