Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.
One man's pornography is another man's theology.
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.
Give me B movies or give me death!
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.