Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

The law of evolution is that the strongest survives.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.