...i Can Write My Own Stories And

The Child In Each Of Us Knows Paradise. Paradise Is Home. Home As It Was Or Home As It Should Have Been. Paradise Is One's Own Place, One's Own People, One's Own World, Knowing And Known, Perhaps Even Loving And Loved. Yet Every Child Is Cast From Paradise- Into Growth And New Community, Into Vast, Ongoing Change.

I Have This Theory That Anything That Happens To You That Leaves You Alive And Intact Can Be Used Somewhere In Your Writing.

Here I Was Into Astronomy, And Here Into Anthropology, And There I Go Into Geology. It Was Much More Fun To Be Able To Research And Write About Whatever I Wanted To.

You Don't Start Out Writing Good Stuff. You Start Out Writing Crap And Thinking It's Good Stuff, And Then Gradually You Get Better At It. That's Why I Say One Of The Most Valuable Traits Is Persistence.

Life Is Getting Better, But That Won't Stop A War If Politicians And Business People Decide It's To Their Advantage To Have One.