Every Scene Should Be Able To Answer

Acting Is Not A Genteel Profession. Actors Used To Be Buried At A Crossroads With A Stake Through The Heart. Those People's Performances So Troubled The Onlookers That They Feared Their Ghosts. An Awesome Compliment. Those Players Moved The Audience Not Such That They Were Admitted To A School, Or Received A Complimentary Review, But Such That The Audience Feared For Their Soul. Now That Seems To Me Something To Aim For.

The Avant-garde Is To The Left What Jingoism Is To The Right. Both Are A Refuge In Nonsense.

Writing A Novel Is An Incredibly Free Experience. One Puts One's Self In A Narrative Mode. You Can Go Off In Any Direction - The Past, The Future, Or Go Laterally, Or Include One's Own Beliefs. It's Total Freedom.

If, Indeed, A Firearm Were More Dangerous To Its Possessors Than To Potential Aggressors, Would It Not Make Sense For The Government To Arm All Criminals, And Let Them Accidentally Shoot Themselves? Is This Absurd? Yes, And Yet The Government, Of Course, Is Arming Criminals.

The Founders Recognized That Government Is Quite Literally A Necessary Evil, That There Must Be Opposition, Between Its Various Branches, And Between Political Parties, For These Are The Only Ways To Temper The Individual's Greed For Power And The Electorates' Desires For Peace By Submission To Coercion Or Blandishment.