Art Doesn't Exist If You

An Urban Novelist Never Minds A Little Decay.

Art Doesn't Exist If You Just Do What You're Told. It Only Exists As An Exercise Of Individual Taste And Freedom.

A Child Who Is Protected From All Controversial Ideas Is As Vulnerable As A Child Who Is Protected From Every Germ. The Infection, When It Comes- And It Will Come- May Overwhelm The System, Be It The Immune System Or The Belief System.

I Say, When Your Hair Turns Gray And Your Children Think They Know Who You Are, Do The Thing That Shakes Up Who You Think You Are, Even Who You Had Prided Yourself On Being. When All Those Around You Say They Simply Don't Recognize You Any Longer, That's The Real Compliment.

I Wrote The Dickens Book Because I Loved Dickens, Not Because I Felt A Kinship With Him, But After Writing The Book It Seemed To Me That There Was At Least One Similarity Between Us And That Was That Dickens Loved To Write And Wrote With The Ease And Conviction Of Breathing. Me, Too.