Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.