In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.