You Are Horror And Beauty In Rare

I Have A Huge And Savage Conscience That Won't Let Me Get Away With Things.

...i Realized That I Knew Less About Loneliness Than I Had Thought - And Much Less Than I Would Know When He Went Away.

In My Years, I Have Seen That People Must Be Their Own Gods And Make Their Own Good Fortune. The Bad Will Come Or Not Come Anyway.

Dad Decided Not To Vote For Donner After All. He Didn't Vote For Anyone. He Said Politicians Turned His Stomach.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.