I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open.

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.