It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are not as alive and interesting as I meant them to be.

Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I.