We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

Longing, the hope for fulfillment, is the one unwavering passion of the world's commerce.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.