You're Only Good If You

Marry Somebody You Love And Who Thinks You Being A Writer's A Good Idea.

Very Early You Come To The Realization That Nothing Will Ever Take You Away From Yourself.

Only Sometimes You Can't Feel Anything About A Subject Without Hypothesizing Its Extinction.

I'm Not One Of Those People Who As A Writer Lets My Characters Tell Me What They Want To Do Or Call To Me Or Seek Me. I Go Seeking For Things, Using Them As An Agent, Really.

What I Know Is, You Have Chance In Life--of Surviving It--if You Tolerate Loss Well; Manage Not To Be A Cynic Through It All; To Subordinate, As Ruskin Implied, To Keep Proportion, To Connect The Unequal Things Into A Whole That Preserves The Good, Even If Admittedly Good Is Often Not Simple To Find.