Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.