Re-writing Is Different From Writing. Original Writing

All Stereotypes Turn Out To Be True. This Is A Horrifying Thing About Life. All Those Things You Fought Against As A Youth: You Begin To Realize They're Stereotypes Because They're True.

It Was Apparent To Me That Religion Was An Invented Thing, A Wish-fulfillment Thing, A Fantasy Thing. It Was Much More Real, Dangerous, To Accept That Mortality Was The End For You As An Individual. As An Atheist, I Don't Believe In An Afterlife, So If You're Thinking Of Murder, If Your Subject Is Murder, Then That's A Physical Act Of Absolute Destruction Because You're Ending Something, A Body, That Is Unique. That Person Never Existed Before, Will Never Exist Again, Will Not Be Karmically Recycled, Will Not Go To Heaven, Therefore I Take It Seriously.

You Know, There's A Saying In Art That In Order To Be Universal You Must Be Specific. So I Think Every Artist Feels That He Is Dealing With Specific Things But That It Also Has Significance Universally.

Re-writing Is Different From Writing. Original Writing Is Very Difficult.

Long Live The New Flesh.