It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.