In Some Way There Is No Real

I Think About The Story While I Think About Other Things. This Is An Important Part Of The Process: I Look At It Sideways. If I Look Straight At It, It Produces Nothing Other Than What Seem Like Complicated, Brilliant Designs That Fall Apart The Following Morning. In Some Way Stories Mature When You're Not Looking.

There Are Studies That Have Shown That We Make Decisions, Ethical And Otherwise, Based On The Way We Imagine Ourselves As Characters In The Stories Of Our Lives. In Other Words, If We Imagine Ourselves Brave Or Crazy Or Open, We're More Likely To Make Decisions In A Given Situation Based On How We Imagine Ourselves, Whatever The Facts May Be.

Memoir Implies The Need To Reveal Something About Yourself - To Recount Your Life For Educational Purposes.

I've Never Had A Stupid Student In My Life. I Never Look Down On My Students. I Never Thought, "look At These People." I Might Argue With Them And I Think That Some Of Them Might Have Misconceptions - That They Might Be Infected By The Intellectual Laziness That Is The Foundation Of American Popular Culture, And Of Capitalism, If You Wish. But Part Of My Job As A Teacher Is To Work With That - Against That.

God Knows Our Despair. God Wants His Chosen People To Live In Peace. God Loves Life, Cares Less About Death. We Need To Live. I Want To Live, I Want My Children To Live. Everyone I Know Wants To Live. You Have To Ask Yourself What Is More Important To You, Life Is Death. What Is This World About - Life Or Death?