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To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.
Sep 15, 2025
When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!
Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.
Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.
I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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