. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.

If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse.

Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.