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America Was First Colonized By Puritans. Most Of Our Earliest Immigrants, And Many Since, Have Come Here In Order To Practice Their Religious Beliefs As They Please. Our Culture Has Always Been, And Will Most Likely Always Be, Profoundly Influenced By Religion.

I Think, Living In America, We're So Bombarded With God All The Time That In Certain Ways I'm Making Statements Against That Bombardment, You Know? I Think It's Crazy. I Mean, I Don't Believe In God. I Don't Believe In Anything. But I Still Think About It. And I Still Write About It.

More Than Anything, All I Have Ever Wanted Is To Be Close To Someone. More Than Anything, All I Have Ever Wanted Is To Feel As If I Wasn't Alone.

Fear, He Said, Ran All Of Our Lives. Fear, He Said, After Religion, Was The Most Destructive Force In The World.

Being An Unpublished Novelist Has About As Much Social Acceptability As Being A Shopping Bag Lady.