“Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.”
“When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?”
“Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.”
“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”
“Ask me, it's a sin to pervert faith with religion. Despite every church, mosque, & synagogue in it, this is not the world any God worth his salt would have created.”
“some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.”