In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.
Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

