Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

You do the best you can and you deal with the consequences. It's all there is.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

Fourteen years in the professor dodge has taught me that one can argue ingeniously on behalf of any theory, applied to any piece of literature. This is rarely harmful, because normally no-one reads such essays.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way