We're here on Earth to fart around

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.