If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

What little reality television I've seen seems to be about economic desperation. Like the marathon dancing of the Great Depression, which should give us pause. People willing to eat flies and worms for a sum that is less than the weekly paycheck of the show's producer. I haven't seen "reality television" that is other than this kind of painful, sadistic exploitation of fit young people looking for agents.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.