There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.
I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.
Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.
If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much more regular, and frequent, basis.
I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.
People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.
It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live "in a period of transition. " Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.
Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state of mind that you're in.
Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.
I just know when you do good things, it helps other people and makes you feel good. . . I don't think I'm a goody-goody for one second, but I believe that helping people was the right way to be. And you just gave someone else a hand up, help them up and they'll come back and help you if you need it.