It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone unless you collaborate but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty then we wait...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take by the year 2000 all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.