I Had Wanted Life Not To Bother

In 1980, I Published My First Novel, In The Usual Swirl Of Unjustified Hope And Justified Anxiety.

Start With The Notion That Yours Is The Sole Responsibility Unless There's Powerful Evidence To The Contrary

Why Should Anything Happen When Everything Has Happened?

Time...give Us Enough Time And Our Best-supported Decisions Will Seem Wobbly, Our Certainties Whimsical.

Reading And Life Are Not Separate But Symbiotic. And For This Serious Task Of Imaginative Discovery And Self-discovery, There Is And Remains One Perfect Symbol: The Printed Book.