“By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure”
“Grace under pressure.”
“Courage is grace under pressure.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace”
“let's start a magazine to hell with literature we want something redbloodedlousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscenebut really clean get what I mean let’s not spoil it let’s make it serioussomething authentic and delirious you know something genuine like a mark in a toiletgraced with guts and gutted with grace”