I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

. . .I really ought to have recognized it for what it was and, perhaps, to have stopped right there - for it was nostalgia, and what inspires nostalgia has been dead a long time

The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.