If You Want To Write

Global Warming, The Ongoing Destruction Of The Planet, Third World Debt, The Uselessness Of The Railways, The Takeover By The Corporations, The Scary George Bush Person: All These Things Are Important And Should Be Animating Me Into Outrage. Yet Somehow They Do Not.

Reading The Play At Home, However Fulfilling, Can Never Be The Vivacious Experience That Shakespeare Intended.

If You Want To Write Something Of Length, However Modern And Radical, You Must Live The Life Of An Elderly Gentleman Of The 1950s.

My Sister-in-law Believes That Few Narratives Are So Tightly Constructed That You Can't Skip Boring Bits And Still Keep Abreast Of What's Going On.

I Couldn't Really See The Point Of Having Lunch Unless It Started At 1:00 And Ended A Week Later In Monte Carlo.