Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Don't cross the boundaries.