You have to live to really know things, my love

The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.