Novels, Like Human Beings, Usually Have Their

If You Can't Raise Consciousness, At Least Raise Hell.

Mother Love Is The Most Powerful, The Most Irrational Force On Earth, Even More Powerful Than Sexual Love. However, One Does Lead To The Other, So Best Not To Spurn The Former.

I'm Beginning To Feel That The Real Endangered Species On Planet Earth Are Not The Whales And The Elephants But Those Of Us Who Can Laugh At The World And Ourselves. ... I Fear The Dry Turn Of The American Mind, This Focus On The Literal, As Much As I Fear Our Capacity For Self-destruction. We've Become Hagridden By Facts, Obsessed With Product Instead Of Process. Where's The Energetic Wit, The Looney Outlook, The Frivolity, The Lightness Of Comforting Laughter? It Has Become Fashionable To Know And Unfashionable To Feel, And You Can't Really Laugh If You Can't Feel.

I Believe That We Often Disguise Pain Through Ritual And It May Be The Only Solace We Have.

... I Distrust Manifest Knowledge.