Despite All That I Know Rationally, And

People Will Always Tell Stories. The Publishing Industry Might Vanish, But Not Stories.

It Is So Much Easier To Deal With The Dead Than With The Living. The Dead Are Out Of The Way, Merely Characters From Stories About The Past, Never Again Unreadable, No Misunderstandings Possible, The Pain Coming From Them Stable And Manageable. Nor Do You Have To Explain Yourself To Them, To Justify The Fact Of Your Life.

Belief And Delusion Are Incestuous Siblings.

There's A Social And Human Necessity For Some Kind Of Continuity, But It's Not Axiomatic And Not Something You're Born Into; It's Something You Have To Work At. And One Of The Ways To Work At It - Perhaps The Best - Is Storytelling: Telling Stories About Yourself To Others, Telling Stories About Yourself To Yourself, Telling Stories About Others To Others.

The Way I Think Of My Work Is That I Have To Think Up The Way To Tell A Story, Starting From Scratch. The Changes In The Industry Concern Me In A General Way Because I Think Civilization Is Doomed.