I Think If The Monarchy

Once You're Labeled As Mentally Ill, And That's In Your Medical Notes, Then Anything You Say Can Be Discounted As An Artefact Of Your Mental Illness.

He Is Careful To Deny Responsibility For September, But He Does Not, You Notice, Condemn The Killings. He Also Refrains From Killing Words, Sparing Roland And Buzot, As If They Were Beneath His Notice. August 10 Was Illegal, He Says; So Too Was The Taking Of The Bastille. What Account Can We Take Of That, In Revolution? It Is The Nature Of Revolutions To Break Laws. We Are Not Justices Of The Peace; We Are Legislators To A New World.

I Am Usually Protective Of My Work, Not Showing It To Anyone Until It Has Been Redrafted And Polished.

Insight Cannot Be Taken Back. You Cannot Return To The Moment You Were In Before.

A Novel Should Be A Book Of Questions, Not A Book Of Answers.