The Past Is What Makes Now Like

There Is No Articulate Resonance. The Common Problem, I Suppose, Is To Have More To Say Than Vocabulary And Syntax Can Bear. That Is Why I Am Hunting In These Desiccated Streets. The Smoke Hides The Sky's Variety, Stains Consciousness, Covers The Holocaust With Something Safe And Insubstantial. It Protects From Greater Flame. It Indicates Fire, But Obscures The Source. This Is Not A Useful City. Very Little Here Approaches Any Eidolon Of The Beautiful.

In The Arts, People Are Always Waiting For Someone Or Some Movement To "fulfill Her/its/his Promise." Then, Half-a-dozen Or A Dozen Years On, Others Begin To Realize That, Really, Something Extraordinary Was Actually Happening.

There Are Three Types Of Actions : Purposeful, Habitual, And Gratuitous. Characters , To Be Immediate And Apprehensible, Must Be Presented By All Three.

From 1968 On, I Was Pretty Much The Black, Gay Sf Writer.

Everyone In A Position Of Authority Is Hysterical, And Everyone Else Is Pretending To Be Asleep.