Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Death is always there, just beneath the surface.

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.