I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

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

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

old folks is the nation.

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

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.