The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

Don't talk about it; write.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.