Familiarity Breeds Consent.

It's An Act Of Faith To Be A Writer In A Postliterate World.

Tragedy Massages The Human Ego Even As Comedy Deflates It. ... Tragedy Pits Us Against Large Foes And The Trip Wire Is Our Own Character. ... In Comedy We Fall Afoul Of One Another. Comedy Depends On Social Life, On Our Behavior In Groups. In Tragedy You Can Observe One Human Against The Gods. In Comedy It's One Human Versus Other Humans And Often One Man (or Woman If I'm Writing It) Against Her Own Worst Impulses.

Tennis Is Physical Chess.

Once You Know What Women Are Like, Men Get Kind Of Boring. I'm Not Trying To Put Them Down, I Mean I Like Them Sometimes As People, But Sexually They're Dull.

I Write Poetry. It Comes Naturally To Me, But From A Technical Point Of View It Forces Me To Pay Close Attention To Language And To Scan.