I've Never Flown A Kite.

A Certain Luxury When You Get To Writing A Novel Is To Have The Space To Have Your Characters Just Banter.

It Is Actually A Lot Harder To Sit Down And Write From A To Z. But For Me At Least, It's The Only Way I Can Do It, At This Point, With Any Moderate Success.

‎i Was Cursed With The Pessimism Of Both The Russians And The Jews Two Of The Gloomiest Tribes In The World. Still If There Wasn't Greatness In Me Maybe I Had The Talent To Recognize It In Others Even In The Most Irritating Others.

The Fire Was Silent, The Little Houses Collapsing Into The Flames Without Complaint, Flocks Of Sparks Rising To The Sky. At A Distance It Seemed Beautiful, And I Thought It Was Strange That Powerful Violence Is Often So Pleasing To The Eye.

Perhaps A Hero Is Someone Who Doesn’t Register His Own Vulnerability. Is It Courage, Then, If You’re Too Daft To Know You’re Mortal?