The Final Test Of A Work Of

The Final Test Of A Work Of Art Is Not Whether It Has Beauty, But Whether It Has Power.

When The Writing Is Really Working, I Think There Is Something Like Dreaming Going On. I Don't Know How To Draw The Line Between The Conscious Management Of What You're Doing And This State. . . . I Would Say That It's Related To Daydreaming. When I Feel Really Engaged With A Passage, I Become So Lost In It That I'm Unaware Of My Real Surroundings, Totally Involved In The Pictures And Sounds That That Passage Evokes.

My Two Major Faults Are That I Row Too Long And Pick Up Too Many Women

It's A Failure Of National Vision When You Regard Children As Weapons, And Talents As Materials You Can Mine, Assay, And Fabricate For Profit And Defense.

There, In The Tin Factory, In The First Moment Of The Atomic Age, A Human Being Was Crushed By Books.