I Go From Being Hugely Hopeful And Entertaining To... Really Not. I'm Not Manic Depressive, But I Can Really Go To The Darker Side.
The Intellectual Power, Honesty, Lucidity, Courage, And Disinterested Love Of The Truth Of The Most Gifted Thinkers Of The Eighteenth Century Remain To This Day Without Parallel. Their Age Is One Of The Best And Most Hopeful Episodes In The Life Of Mankind.
I Guess I'm A Hopeful Optimist, Because To Be A Pessimist Is To Be Suicidal.
Hopefully The Person I'm Trying To Create Is Just A Funny, Dour, Evil Side Of Myself That Has No Other Way To Express Itself. I Don't Model It After Anyone In Particular. Who Would Be Like That? Who? I Wouldn't Want To Meet That Person. I Wouldn't Want To Be Interviewed By That Person, I Can Tell You That.
Polishing: A Useful Lesson For The Hopeful Writer. You Say Your Tormented Prose Doesn't Read As Well As Mine? Neither Does Mine, At First!