If You Have Something Specific And Visible

If There's One Thing That A Study Of History Has Taught Us, It Is That Things Can Always Get Worse.

And Then He'd Tried To Become An Official Atheist And Hadn't Got The Rock-hard Self-satisfied Strength Of Belief Even For That.

It's Not Sipping Wine. It's A Mourning Wine. You Drain It. Like This.

Perhaps This Is The Ultimate Freedom, Eh, Dreamlord? The Freedom To Leave.

I Don't Think Immediate Tragedy Is A Very Good Source Of Art. It Can Be, But Too Often It's Raw And Painful And Un-dealt-with. Sometimes Art Can Be A Really Good Escape From The Intolerable, And A Good Place To Go When Things Are Bad, But That Doesn't Mean You Have To Write Directly About The Bad Thing; Sometimes You Need To Let Time Pass, And Allow The Thing That Hurts To Get Covered With Layers, And Then You Take It Out, Like A Pearl, And You Make Art Out Of It.