A Good Story Should Make You Laugh,

The Money Is In Television. Books Are Not The Dominant Medium Of Our Time, So Fewer People Will Create Them. In A Sad Way, Books Have Become A Form Of "comfort Food" We Expect To Lull Us To Sleep.

All God Does Is Watch Us And Kill Us When We Get Boring. We Must Never, Ever Be Boring.

We Hear The Ambient Noise Of Children Singing. We Hear Lions And Tigers Roar. Hyenas Laugh. Some Jungle Bird Or Howler Monkey Declares Its Existence, Screeching A Maniac's Gibberish. Our Entire World, Always Doing Battle Against The Silence And Obscurity Of Death.

Some Stories, You Use Up. Others Use You Up.

The Girl Traced The Outline Of Her Lover's Shadow So She Would Always Have A Record Of How He Looked.