We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.