Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.
Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.
I don't know if make a conscious effort to vary the characters and subjects that I write about, but I do find myself keeping track of ideas that come along, as probably most writers do, and whatever seems most interesting to me when I flip through my notes before I begin a new story is usually what I will try to write about next.
Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.
The effects of fame on the not-famous people who are close to a celebrity - this is definitely a topic that continues to interest me.
Jealousy is a potent emotion, of course, and Facebook, texting, email, fan Web pages. . . In theory, being someone like George Clooney's or Halle Berry's paramour - woo hoo - how great would that be? But wait a minute. . . er, no, probably kind of a nightmare.
I think it takes a very generous and tolerant non-famous partner to stick with the famous person, especially if she wasn't famous when they first got together. And add to it the fact that the Web makes it extremely easy to meet admirers. . . well, there are a lot of temptations to be ignored, or else embraced.
The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about and would say that I am them pretty much. So in terms of that I don't think I'm similar to Bret Easton Ellis.
Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.
America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking open space, and of an over-all environment that is diminished daily by pollution and noise and blight.