We're Fascinated By Animals Because It's Almost

There Will Always Be Vain, Obsessive People Who Want To Own Rare And Extraordinary Things Whatever The Cost; There Will Always Be People For Whom Owning Beautiful, Dangerous Animals Brings A Sense Of Power And Magic.

There's A Marvelous Sense Of Mastery That Comes With Writing A Sentence That Sounds Exactly As You Want It To.

States Should Pass Laws Making It Illegal To Own Or Trade Wild Animals; The Phony 'educational' Permits That Many Private Owners Have Used To Skirt Those Laws Should Be Eliminated.

Writers Like To Write, And Writing In Different Forms - Short, Long, Bite-sized, Done On The Fly, Done With Painstaking Attention - All Interest Me.

Writing About Fashion Forces You To Overcome The Nagging Feeling That Fashion Doesn't "matter", That It's Trivial Or Fleeting. I Just Look At It Anthropologically, Which Is Different From The Way I'd Write About Art.