All That You Touch You

Religion Is A Dangerous Prod, Because It Can Always Be Misused And Get Out Of Hand, But It's Useful For Keeping People On The Straight And Narrow.

Beware: Ignorance Protects Itself. Ignorance Promotes Suspicion. Suspicion Engenders Fear. Fear Quails, Irrational And Blind, Or Fear Looms, Defiant And Closed. Blind, Closed, Suspicious, Afraid, Ignorance Protects Itself, And Protected, Ignorance Grows.

I Think Climbing Mountains Or Buildings Or Whatever Has Been A Really Good Metaphor For Finishing My Work. Because No Matter How Tired You Get, No Matter How You Feel Like You Can't Possibly Do This, Somehow You Do.

People Who Want To Write Either Do It Or They Don't. At Last I Began To Say That My Most Important Talent - Or Habit - Was Persistence. Without It, I Would Have Given Up Writing Long Before I Finished My First Novel. It's Amazing What We Can Do If We Simply Refuse To Give Up.

No, I Think The Future Of Humanity Will Be Like The Past, We'll Do What We've Always Done And There Will Still Be Human Beings. Granted, There Will Always Be People Doing Something Different And There Are A Lot Of Possibilities.