Never have children, only grandchildren.
Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
Politically, of course, it's to the Right, but then the whole country is to the Right.
I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. Nothing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.