It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.
. . . where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.
Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.
While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.
The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.
Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.