This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

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.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.