As Long As There Are Living Human

I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.

It Is My Belief That We As Human Beings Have A Need To Tell Stories - I Think It's Evolutionary. So You Can Think Of The Short Story As A Literary Form, Or You Can Instead Think Of Stories.

I Want To Make Money, And I Would Like To Have A Lot Of Money, But I Still Believe That The Only Reason To Write Is That Somehow It Will Make Something Or Somebody Better.

Politics Is About Ethics And Morality, Openly Or Not Openly.

I Don't Know The Numbers, But Roughly Half Of The People Who Came Through Ellis Island Returned Home. They Came Here To Make Money, Not To Make History.