Truly God Was Good, To Make Man

... The Most Insoluble Problems Are Those Which By Their Very Nature Can Have No Space Within Them For Dreams.

I Am Writing A Sequel To The Touch Because I Want To Further Explore The Chinese Question That I Have Raised. There Will Be More About That In A Sequel.

Once I've Got The First Draft Down On Paper Then I Do Five Or Six More Drafts, The Last Two Of Which Will Be Polishing Drafts. The Ones In Between Will Flesh Out The Characters And Maybe I'll Check My Research.

We're Working-class People, Which Means We Don't Get Rich Or Have Maids. Be Content With What You Are And What You Have.

There's A Story... A Legend, About A Bird That Sings Just Once In Its Life. From The Moment It Leaves Its Nest, It Searches For A Thorn Tree... And Never Rests Until It's Found One. And Then It Sings... More Sweetly Than Any Other Creature On The Face Of The Earth. And Singing, It Impales Itself On The Longest, Sharpest Thorn. But, As It Dies, It Rises Above Its Own Agony, To Outsing The Lark And The Nightingale. The Thorn Bird Pays Its Life For Just One Song, But The Whole World Stills To Listen, And God In His Heaven Smiles.