There's Always A Period Of Curious Fear

To Be A Tourist Is To Escape Accountability.

A Writer Takes Earnest Measures To Secure His Solitude And Then Finds Endless Ways To Squander It.

It Frequently Happens That I Begin A Novel With Just A Visual Image Of Something, A Vague Sense Of People In Three Dimensional Space.

People Will Always Make Comparisons.

What Did It Mean, The First Time, A Thinking Creature Looked Deeply Into Another's Eyes? Did It Take A Hundred Thousand Years Before This Happened Or It Was The First Thing They Did, Transcendingly, The Thing That Made Them Higher, Made Them Modern, The Gaze That Demonstrates We Are Lonely In Our Souls?