The Shadow Had No Imagination. He Neither

Writing Is Like Driving At Night In The Fog. You Can Only See As Far As Your Headlights, But You Can Make The Whole Trip That Way.

An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People Are Animals. 2. The Body Is Mortal And Subject To Incredible Pain. 3. Life Is Antagonistic To The Living. 4. The Flesh Can Be Sawed, Crushed, Frozen, Stretched, Burned, Bombed, And Plucked For Music. 5. The Dumb Are Abused By The Smart And The Smart Destroyed By Their Own Cunning. 6. The Small Are Tortured By The Large And The Large Destroyed By Their Own Momentum. 7. We Are Able To Walk On Air, But Only As Long As Our Illusion Supports Us.

There Is Really No Fiction Or Non-fiction; There Is Only Narrative. One Mode Of Perception Has No Greater Claim On The Truth Than The Other; That The Distance Has Perhaps To Do With Distance - Narrative Distance - From The Characters; It Has To Do With The Kind Of Voice That Is Talking, But It Certainly Hasn't To Do With The Common Distribution Between Fact And Imagination.

Planning To Write Is Not Writing. Outlining, Researching, Talking To People About What You're Doing, None Of That Is Writing. Writing Is Writing.

Images Break With A Small Ping, Their Destruction Is As Wonderful As Their Being, They Are Essentially Instruments Of Torture Exploding Through The Individual's Calloused Capacity To Feel Undifferentiated Emotions Full Of Longing And Dissatisfaction And Monumentality.