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Booze Takes A Lot Of Time And Effort If You're Going To Do A Good Job With It.

There's Literary Creation And Literary Business. When I First Got Something Accepted, It Gave My Life A Validation It Didn't Otherwise Have.

My Circumstances Of Unrelieved Responsibility And Permanent Distraction Necessitated The Short Story Form.

Happiness. It Comes On Unexpectedly. And Goes Beyond, Really, Any Early Morning Talk About It.

The Smooth Stones You Pick Up And Examine Under The Moon's Light Have Been Made Blue From The Sea. Next Morning When You Pull Them From Your Trouser Pocket, They Are Still Blue.