Fiction Is The Truth Inside The Lie.

There Are A Great Many Ways To Commit Suicide You Know.

Everybody Wants To Psychoanalyze Horror. They Don't Want To Psychoanalyze A Book Like Gay Talese's "sex With Your Neighbor" [sic] Or Something Like That. It's Pretty Much Accepted That Americans Should Be Interested In Who They're Diddling And How They're Doing It.

The Late Afternoon Sunlight, Warm As Oil, Sweet As Childhood.

Love, The Simplest, Strongest, And Most Unforgiving Of All Emotions.

...book-buyers Aren't Attracted, By And Large, By The Literary Merits Of A Novel: Book-buyers Want A Good Story...something That Will First Fascinate Them, Then Pull Them In And Keep Them Turning The Pages.