Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 29, 1944 Death: December 8, 2011
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks h….
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded princi….
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer..
All isms end in fascism..
The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes..
Love is blind but not deaf..
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire that puts a cat to sleep. S….
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of f….