Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.