Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.
We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.
You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
On the day they dropped the bomb Frank had a tablespoon and a Mason jar. What he was doing was spooning different kinds of bugs into the jar and making them fight....I can remember other bug fights we staged later on...They won't fight unless you keep shaking the jar.