If You Want To Write

It Is More Interesting To Be Compared To Someone Famous, Because It Lets You Gauge What Perceptions People Have About Your Appearance.

Global Warming, The Ongoing Destruction Of The Planet, Third World Debt, The Uselessness Of The Railways, The Takeover By The Corporations, The Scary George Bush Person: All These Things Are Important And Should Be Animating Me Into Outrage. Yet Somehow They Do Not.

Every Generation Of Children Has Its Private Hero.

Acting Is The Most Demanding, Painful Job In The World.

I Read 'crime And Punishment' Years Ago And Don't Recall The Details Of It, But I Do Retain A Strong Sense Of The Creeping Paranoia And Panic.