I Have An Interest In Understanding Evil. Who Is The BAD GUY - The Vampire Who Kills People And SUCKS Their Blood, Or The Survivalists Who Kill People To Save Their Own Lives? Is Evil MERELY A Creation Of People? Or Is There An Evil NATURE? Or Is It In The Eye Of The Beholder? I Really Like These Questions.

The Creation Of George Smiley, The Retired SPY Recalled To Hunt For Just Such A High-ranking Mole In 'Tinker, Tailor,' Was EXTREMELY PERSONAL. I Borrowed Elements Of People I ADMIRED And Invested Them In This Mythical Character. I'm Such A Fluent, Specious Person Now, But I Was An Extremely Awkward Fellow In Those Days.

Let Us DREAM Of TOMORROW Where We Can Truly Love From The Soul, And Know Love As The Ultimate TRUTH At The HEART Of All Creation.

Storms Of Every SORT, Torrents, Earthquakes, Cataclysms, 'convulsions Of NATURE,' Etc., However Mysterious And Lawless At First SIGHT They May Seem, Are Only Harmonious Notes In The Song Of CREATION, Varied Expressions Of GOD's Love.

I THINK Every Person Either Inherits Or Eventually Makes Up Their Own Idea Of What They Are And Who They Are And What Caused The World To Be, And It Seems To Me That These Stories Of Creation MYTH, Adopted By Different CULTURES - Most Of Them Are Less Insightful Than The Stories Made Up By INDIVIDUAL Poets And Writers.

Like Many Other Scientists Who Hold The Catholic Faith, I See The Creator's Plan And PURPOSE Fulfilled In Our Universe. I See A Planet Bursting With Evolutionary Possibilities, A Continuing Creation In Which The DIVINE Providence Is Manifest In Every Living Thing. I See A SCIENCE That TELLS Us There Is Indeed A Design To Life.

Only The Most Acute And Active Animals Are Capable Of BOREDOM. - A Theme For A Great POET Would Be GOD's Boredom On The Seventh DAY Of CREATION.

It Is Not The Creation Of WEALTH That Is Wrong, But The LOVE Of MONEY For Its Own Sake.

The TRICKS Of Magic Follow The Archetypes Of Narrative Fiction - There Are Tales Of Creation And LOSS, Death And RESURRECTION, And Obstacles That MUST Be Overcome.