The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a lonely, mountainous plateau, overbouldered and strewn with the skulls of sheep slain for vellum and old bitten pinions that tried to be quills. It's forty rough miles by mule from Athens, a city where there's a fair, a movie house, cotton candy.