I write with all my heart
The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
Sometimes you must go against the wheel's turn.
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.