I'm Delighted By How Nobody's Fool Turned

Even At Its Most Perceptive, Sociology Deals In Abstractions.

Cary Grant Never Won An Oscar, Primarily, I Suspect, Because He Made Everything Look So Effortless. Why Reward Someone For Having Fun, For Being Charming?

A Short Story Is Something That I Think Can Be Intuited And Envisioned And Held In Your Mind Almost At Once.

He'd Discovered That His Memories Of That Summer Were Like Bad Movie Montages - Young Lovers Tossing A Frisbee In The Park, Sharing A Melting Ice-cream Cone, Bicycling Along The River, Laughing, Talking, Kissing, A Sappy Score Drowning Out The Dialogue Because The Screenwriter Had No Idea What These Two People Might Say To Each Other.

I Have To Have A Character Worth Caring About. I Tend Not To Start Writing Books About People I Don't Have A Lot Of Sympathy For Because I'm Just Going To Be With Them Too Long.