For Better Or Worse, I've Been Involved

Remember Graham Green's Dictum That Childhood Is The Bank Balance Of The Writer? I Think That All Writers Feel Alienated. Most Of Us Go Back To An Alienated Childhood In Some Way Or Another. I Know That I Do.

Ideologies Have No Heart Of Their Own. They're The Whores And Angels Of Our Striving Selves.

The Religious Cant That Will Send American Troops Into Battle Is Perhaps The Most Sickening Aspect Of This Surreal War-to-be. Bush Has An Arm-lock On God. And God Has Very Particular Political Opinions. God Appointed America To Save The World In Any Way That Suits America. God Appointed Israel To Be The Nexus Of America's Middle Eastern Policy, And Anyone Who Wants To Mess With That Idea Is A) Anti-semitic, B) Anti-american, C) With The Enemy, And D) A Terrorist.

A Dead Man Is The Worst Enemy Alive, I Thought. You Can't Alter His Power Over You. You Can't Alter What You Love Or Owe. And It's Too Late To Ask Him For His Absolution. He Has Beaten You All Ways.

Jesus Christ Only Had Twelve, You Know, And One Of Them Was A Double.