If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.