I Would Say Try To Tell Stories

Life Is Too Mysterious To Try To Map It Out. I've Certainly Lived Long Enough To Know It Will Take You Places You Never Thought It Would Take You - And Some Of Those Places Are Kind Of Wonderful.

I Think All Writers Are Armchair Psychologists To Some Degree Or Another, And I Think A Character's Sexuality Is Fascinating. It's A Great Way To Really Get At The Root Of Their Identity, Because It's Such A Personal Thing.

Life Is Suffering. We Have Desires And Expectations And Egos, And We Compare The Reality We Have, Which Is Miraculous And Wondrous, With This Reality We Desire. That Somehow Distances Us From Actually Taking Part Fully With The Reality We Do Have, And That Creates Suffering. For Me, The Thing That I Love Is That It's All About The Present Moment.

And As I Stumbled Onto Eastern Philosophy And Buddhism, It Was The First Time I Had Ever Read Any Sort Of Philosophy That Really Made A Tremendous Amount Of Sense. What I Liked That Was Missing From My Experience Of Christianity Growing Up Was A Sort Of Acceptance, A Sort Of Being Ok With Being Imperfect And Not Focusing On The Sin.

I Am So Spoiled. I Cannot Watch A Show Where It Gets Interrupted For Ads. I Have To Tivo It And Skip Through The Ads, Because The Culture Of Advertising Is So False And Phony That I Just... Ugh, You Know?