I Still Have Some Of My Old

There Are No Gods, We Are Told, So I Must Make My Own Salvation.

Stories Set In The Culture In Which Things Went Wrong Tended To Start With Humans Losing Or Forgetting Or Deliberately Leaving Behind Their Terminal. It Was A Conventional Opening, The Equivalent Of Straying Off The Path In The Wild Woods In One Age, Or A Car Breaking Down At Night On A Lonely Road In Another.

I'm A Devoted Husband. That Must Strike You As Totally Deviant.

As Long As A Film Stays Unmade, The Book Is Entirely Yours, It Belongs To The Writer. As Soon As You Make It Into A Film, Suddenly More People See It Than Have Ever Read The Book.

I Held My Crotch, Closed My Eyes And Repeated My Secret Catechism.