What Condemnation Could Possibly Be More Harsh

How Long Did It Take For A Past To Die?

I Hate It When Something I've Had Published "inspires" Some Nut To Imitate What I've Written, Or Some Teacher Gets Fired For Having Her Students Read One Of My Stories Or Novels.

To Get Married And Have A Family, Is To Grow Up And Mature. It's The Only Way. You Can Read Philosophy Books For A Hundred Years, But If You Don't Get Married And Have A Family You Will Never Get It. They Soften You And Shape You, Mature You. Absolutely.

When I'm Writing, Especially When I'm Writing In First Person, I Don't Think About The Characterization, Or How They Are Going To Express Themselves, I Just Express My Own Approach To These Things. I Think Most Writers Can Never Divorce Themselves From Their Private Lives And Personas; They Are The Ones That Are Writing. And The More They Remove Themselves From Their Own Persona, The More, Perhaps, Mechanical The Work Becomes.

Our World Is In Profound Danger. Mankind Must Establish A Set Of Positive Values With Which To Secure Its Own Survival.