To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.