Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.