There's No Narcotic Like Exhaustion.

I Just Knew There Were Stories I Wanted To Tell.

It's When People Begin Using Their Religion As Just A Way Of Getting Power Over Other People That Scares Me. I'm Afraid That's What's Going On In A Lot Of Cases Right Now. When People Deliberately Tell Lies, Creationism For Instance, And Pretend, "oh, It's Not Really Religion." I Mean They Know They're Lying, And Yet They're The Religious People. There's Something Wrong There.

Beware At War Or At Peace, More People Die Of Unenlightened Self-interest Than Of Any Other Disease

All Religions Are Ultimately Cargo Cults. Adherents Perform Required Rituals, Follow Specific Rules, And Expect To Be Supernaturally Gifted With Desired Rewards Long Life, Honor, Wisdom, Children, Good Health, Wealth, Victory Over Opponents, Immortality After Death, Any Desired Rewards.

I'm A 48-year-old Writer Who Can Remember Being A 10-year-old Writer And Who Expects Someday To Be An 80-year-old Writer. I'm Also Comfortably Asocial -- A Hermit In The Middle Of Los Angeles -- A Pessimist If I'm Not Careful, A Feminist, A Black, A Former Baptist, An Oil-and-water Combination Of Ambition, Laziness, Insecurity, Certainty, And Drive.