It's This Upside-down World That We Live

When I Was Writing My First Novel A Friend Told Me I Should Apply For A Grant From The Government That Was Offered To Support Starving Artists. I Can't Tell You How Much This Deeply Offended Me. I Told Her In Very Clear Language That I Thought It Was Ridiculous To Think That Other Americans Ought To Pay For Me To Chase My Dream. Anybody Who Understands Pride And Self-determination Gets This. So I Bartended At Night, I Wrote During The Day, And I Paid For My Own Damn Insurance. I Didn't Expect Anybody Else To Pick It Up For Me.

[he] Saw Communism For The Sham That It Was--a Bunch Of Brutes Who Seized Power In The Name Of The People, Only To Repress The Very People They Claimed To Champion.

I Have A History Of Disregarding Orders. - Mitch Rapp

...any Form Of Government That Required The Repression, Imprisonment, And Execution Of Those Who Disagreed With It Was Certainly Not A Government Of The People.

It's What Every Writer Needs: A Daybed.