Each Heart Has Its Graveyard, Each Household

Evolution Brings Human Beings. Human Beings, Through A Long And Painful Process, Bring Humanity.

It No Longer Matters Who Consider Themselves The Masters Of Events. Events No Longer Obey Their Masters.

It Started 25 Years Ago, When I Was Teaching Elementary School In A Small Town In Missouri

Pain Is An Interesting And Off-putting Thing. Few If Any Things In Life Concentrate Our Attention So Completely And Terribly, And Few Things Are More Boring To Listen To Or Read About.

You've Probably Heard About The Theory Of Steam-engine Time - That Even After The Steam Engine Had Been Invented, It Had To Wait Until People Were Ready To Make Use Of It. The Same Thing Happens In Literary Circles. The Truth Is, I'm Not Terribly Interested In Victorian Times; I'm Interested In Victorian Writers. I'm Interested In Most Eras Of History, But Not The Victorian Era Especially. I Was Interested In The John Franklin Expedition. I Was Interested In These Last Five Weird Years Of Dickens' Life. And I Just Have To Take The Age That Comes With All That When I Write About It.