Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head.