A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.