Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.

It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.