Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.
In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are.
Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.