Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

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.

You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.