Like Many Men Who Play TENNIS, When I Hit A Ball Into The Net, I TEND To Look Daggers At My Racket, Reproaching It For PLAYING So BADLY When I Myself Have Been Trying So Hard.

They THINK They Have GOD ALMIGHTY By The TOE.

If You EVER Start FEELING Like You Have The Goofiest, Craziest, Most Dysfunctional Family In The World, All You Have To Do Is Go To A State Fair. Because Five Minutes At The Fair, You'll Be Going, 'you Know, We're Alright. We Are Dang NEAR ROYALTY.'

Thank The Lord For A Mother Who Was A GENERAL As Well As A Latter-day Saint; Who Realized That It Was A Remarkable And Splendid Thing To Encourage A Boy To Do SOMETHING Besides Perhaps Milking COWS If He Was On A Farm, If He Had Ambitions Along ATHLETIC Lines.

I Don't Think KIDS Have A Problem Reading Books Meant For Adults; The Problem Is On The Other SIDE Of The Fence, A Misconception Of What One Kind Of LITERATURE Is 'supposed' To Be, Perceived To Be, As Opposed To Another: If It's For Kids, It Can't Be Any GOOD; It's Got To Have Been Dumbed Down And/or Sweetened Up.

The IMPORTANT THING For Me When I LOOK At Characters Is To Consider The Kind Of CONSTRAINTS Placed Upon Them. Now, Me Personally, I Don't LIKE To Have A Lot Of Constraints Placed Upon Me.

The BEST THING You Can Do To An AUDIENCE Is To MAKE Them WORK.

Fear MAY Very Well Be A Caveman Fear Of The PREDATOR, Of The GIANT Lizard CHASING Them - Maybe That's What Steven Spielberg Connects With So Well In LOST World.

To My Mind, Most People Go Through Life Recoiling From Its BEST PARTS. They MISS The Enrichment That Just A Basic Knowledge Of The Physical World Can Bring To The Most Ordinary EXPERIENCES.

I Don't KNOW What I WOULD Do If I Didn't WRITE.