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I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.

I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

I think they've been baby bummers.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.