Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl.

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

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