If You Need Three Adjectives

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.

If You Put Anger In The Writing, Then It's Like An Actor Crying On Stage. The Audience Will Not Cry With The Actor And In Some Way Inure Itself Against The Emotion.

If You Need Three Adjectives To Describe Something, Then You've Probably Chosen The Wrong Something.

Only By Moving In The Direction You Least Trust Can You Be Saved

For Those At Home, As Well As For Those In Battle, War Is Curiously Disabling. The Mere Realization That One's Country Is At War Poisons The Bloodstream, Creates An Incessant Mood Of Worry That Infiltrates Even The Most Casual Moments.