Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.