The Ice Storm, Because Of The Movie,

Impotence, Fetishism, Bisexuality, And Bondage Are All Facts Of Life, And Our Fiction Should Reflect That.

I Think First-person Narrators Should Be Complex, Because Otherwise The First-person Is Too Shallow And Predictable. I Like A First-person Narrator Who Can't Totally Be Trusted.

Have I Mentioned That I Expect Death Around Every Turn, That Every Blue Sky Has A Safe Sailing Out Of It, That Every Bus Runs Me Over, That Every Low, Mean Syllable Uttered In My Direction Seems To Intimate The Violence Of Murder, That Every Family Seems Like An Opportunity For Ruin And Every Marriage A Ceremony Into Which Calamity Will Fall And Hearts Will Be Broken And Lives Destroyed And People Branded By The Mortifications Of Love?

I Suppose That The Sympathetic/unsympathetic Debate About Characters Sometimes Feels To Me Like A Misstatement Of Purpose. I Always Think Of Truly Complex Characters Are Falling Between The Cracks In That Debate.

It Turns Out That My Memory Is Just Not That Great, So For Specific Scenes With People Doing Stuff, Sometimes I'd Have The Details All Wrong Or I Couldn't Remember What Happened Exactly, So I Just Let That Be.