I Had Wanted Life Not To Bother

I Have An Instinct For Survival, For Self-preservation.

Very Few Of My Characters Are Based On People I've Known. It Is Too Constricting.

We Live In Time, It Bounds Us And Defines Us, And Time Is Supposed To Measure History, Isn't It? But If We Can't Understand Time, Can't Grasp Its Mysteries Of Pace And Progress, What Chance Do We Have With History--even Our Own Small, Personal, Largely Undocumented Piece Of It?

Most People, In My Opinion, Steal Much Of What They Are. If They Didn't What Poor Items They Would Be.

It's Easy, After All, Not To Be A Writer. Most People Aren't Writers, And Very Little Harm Comes To Them.