… The World Will Indulge You Just

I Get Up Around 6:30. I Work From About 8:00 To 1:00, Take A Break For Lunch, Work Again Until About 5:00, And Then Go For A Long Walk And Have Dinner. Then, If My Wife And I Have No Previous Plans, We Decide What To Do For The Evening.

…everything Has A Past. Everything – A Person, An Object, A Word, Everything. If You Don’t Know The Past, You Can’t Understand The Present And Plan Properly For The Future.

Two Hundred Or More Years Ago Most People On The Planet Were Never Aware Of Any Reality Other Than The One Into Which They Were Brought Up.

Literature Presents You With Alternate Mappings Of The Human Experience. You See That The Experiences Of Other People And Other Cultures Are As Rich, Coherent, And Troubled As Your Own Experiences. They Are As Beset With Suffering As Yours. Literature Is A Kind Of Legitimate Voyeurism Through The Keyhole Of Language Where You Really Come To Know Other People's Lives--their Anguish, Their Loves, Their Passions. Often You Discover That Once You Dive Into Those Lives And Get Below The Surface, The Veneer, There Is A Real Closeness.

I Have Faith In The Torah. I Am Not Afraid Of Truth.