Time Can Be Such A Menace To

Uncle Scrooge Preferred To Let The Poor Die "and Decrease The Surplus Population." Scrooge May Not Have Had God On His Side, But His Arithmetic Was Impeccable.

One Of The Very Important Things That Have To Be Learned Around The Time Dying Becomes A Real Prospect Is To Recognize Those Occasions When We Have Been Useful In The World.

If The Sad Truth Be Known, Writers, Being The Misfits We Are, Probably Ought Not To Belong To Families In The First Place. We Simply Are Too Self-interested, Though We May Excuse The Flaw By Calling It 'focused.'

The Best In Art And Life Comes From A Center - Something Urgent And Powerful, An Idea Or Emotion That Insists On Its Being. From That Insistence, A Shape Emerges And Creates Its Structure Out Of Passion. If You Begin With A Structure, You Have To Make Up The Passion, And That's Very Hard To Do.

Every Writing Teacher Gives The Subliminal Message, Every Time They Teach: 'your Life Counts For Something.' In No Other Subject That I Know Of Is That Message Given.