The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

Whoever was stupid was beneath worry or thought; you did not have to figure them out. This eliminated hundreds of people. In this life you had time only for a certain amount of thinking, and there was no need to waste any of it on people who were not threatening.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.