Maturity, As I Conceived It, Was Recognizing

The Pace Of Life Feels Morally Dangerous To Me.

Some People Think That Writers Are Innately Solitary And That There's A Kind Of Romance To That Solitariness. I Tend To Think That What Writers Really Want To Do Is Get Accepted Into Things. They Want To Get Accepted Into Society, Into Culture, Into Intelligentsia, Into The Fun. Writing Is Their Mechanism, Their Instrument, For Doing That.

Happiness For Me Is Getting To Write About The Most Important Things I Know.

The Art Of Living Your Life Has A Lot To Do With Getting Over Loss. The Less The Past Haunts You, The Better.

Writing Is The Only Thing I've Ever Done With Persistence, Except For Being Married.