What You Have To Understand,

The On­ly Thing I Know Is Ev­ery­thing You Love Will Die.

Let's All Embrace Someone Near Us. Pick Someone Special To You. Tell This Someone How You Feel.

These Days, Most Of The People You Hear Laughing Are Dead.

When Both Of You Are Beautiful, Neither Of You Is Beautiful. Together, As A Couple, You're Less Than The Sum Of Your Parts.

As A Child Of The 1970s, I Couldn't Hold A Narrative In My Head; I Was Lucky If I Could Hold A Joke In My Head, Because Every Time You Turn On Television Or Radio, It Wipes The Slate Clean - At Least In My Case. After I Gave Up Television, I Found I Could Carry Longer And Longer Stories Or Ideas In My Head And Put Them Together Until I Was Carrying An Entire Short Story. That's Pretty Much When I Started Writing.