The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
William H. GassIt’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
William H. Gassit is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
William H. GassThe death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contention that such a belief is no longer even irrationally possible: that neither reason nor the taste and temper of the times condones it. The belief lingers on, of course, but it does so like astrology or a faith in a flat earth.
William H. Gass