Stories Are The Reproductive Organs Of Language.

Anxiety Projection Can And Does Occur - In Myth, In Music, In Fiction, And In The Doctor's Office Too. That Doesn't Make It The Basis Of Everything.

The First Function Of Violence In Native American Literatures Is Simply To Acknowledge That Violence Is Implicit, Like Gravity And Sunlight, In The World And Our Relations With The World.

Typography Is The Craft Of Endowing Human Language With A Durable Visual Form, And Thus With An Independent Existence. Its Heartwood Is Calligraphy - The Dance, On A Tiny Stage, Of The Living, Speaking Hand - And Its Roots Reach Into Living Soil, Though Its Branches May Be Hung Each Year With New Machines. So Long As The Root Lives, Typography Remains A Source Of True Delight, True Knowledge, True Surprise.

Many Intellectual Heroes In The European Tradition Seem To Find The Great Outdoors A Chilling Prospect - And Its Literary Analogue, The Mythworld, Equally Chilling. As If A World In Which Humans Have No Leverage, And Might Not Be Present At All, Couldn't Be Interesting To Humans.

When You Die, Your Culture Takes You In, And Then, If You've Given Enough, Your Place Is Near The Centre.