Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.