I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a RESPONSIBILITY to behave in a CERTAIN WAY. I'm ABLE to do that.
Read MoreIt is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that HUMANS in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and UNPREDICTABLE WAYS.
Read MoreI made an awful MESS of my first marriage. It was HARD to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and BEHAVE like a normal human being, because most of those guys were STRUGGLING to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.
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