There's Something About Marriage That

You Have The Feeling That If You Get A Pulitzer, You're Somehow Set For Life.

Most People Like A Little Sex In Their Novels.

As An Individual With My Own Hurts, I Go Into The Garden (gethsemane) As Often As I Need To. There I Identify With The Pain In The Other, With My Part In That Pain, My Part In Tempting Someone To Wound Me. I Experience The Other's Pain, And God's Pain, And Am Devastated - Because Their Pain Becomes My Own. Feeling Such Anguish, I Can Forgive, Or Deeply Repent, Either For Myself Or On Behalf Of The Other.

Well, I Am Becoming Doddering And Old But I Have - I'm Writing Two Books A Year Now. It's Like 220,000 Words Or Something Like Finished, And, Honest To God, I Can't Do That. I Really Do Need The Help Of, You Know, Other People Working With Me.

Gonna Rain Like A Cow Pissin' On A Flat Rock" [drugstore Clerk To Detective Virgil Flowers] Dark Of The Moon, P.7