is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.