Paradise Is For Those Who

If Civilization Has An Opposite, It Is War.

Writers Have To Get Used To Launching Something Beautiful And Watching It Crash And Burn. They Also Have To Learn When To Let Go Control, When The Work Takes Off On Its Own And Flies, Farther Than They Ever Planned Or Imagined, To Places They Didn't Know They Knew.

No, I Don't Mean Love, When I Say Patriotism. I Mean Fear. The Fear Of The Other. And Its Expressions Are Political, Not Poetical: Hate, Rivalry, Aggression.

Life Goes On, Even If Two-headed And Glowing Faintly In The Dark.

Injustice Makes The Rules, And Courage Breaks Them.