Anyone At Any Age Is Able To

Good Writing Is Supposed To Evoke Sensation In The Reader - Not The Fact That It Is Raining, But The Feeling Of Being Rained Upon.

An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People Are Animals. 2. The Body Is Mortal And Subject To Incredible Pain. 3. Life Is Antagonistic To The Living. 4. The Flesh Can Be Sawed, Crushed, Frozen, Stretched, Burned, Bombed, And Plucked For Music. 5. The Dumb Are Abused By The Smart And The Smart Destroyed By Their Own Cunning. 6. The Small Are Tortured By The Large And The Large Destroyed By Their Own Momentum. 7. We Are Able To Walk On Air, But Only As Long As Our Illusion Supports Us.

What We Call Fiction Is The Ancient Way Of Knowing, The Total Discourse That Antedates All The Special Vocabularies....fiction Is Democratic, It Reasserts The Authority Of The Single Mind To Make And Remake The World.

Time Seems To Me A Drift, A Shifting Of Sand. And My Mind Is Shifting With It. I Am Wearing Away.

A Writer's Life Is So Hazardous That Anything He Does Is Bad For Him. Anything That Happens To Him Is Bad: Failure's Bad, Success Is Bad; Impoverishment Is Bad, Money Is Very, Very Bad. Nothing Good Can Happen... Except The Act Of Writing.