The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as an act of self-expression. We read because language renders unto us the vitality of real and imagined experience.

I am a stranger to half measures.

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.