War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision.

Surround yourself with what you love.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show.

I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.