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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Hell is other people.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.

Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.