I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, lik….

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing..

An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing i….

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see..

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one el….

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not pro….

What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human expe….

One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave..

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't..

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the wr….

One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to ….

...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible….

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from….

We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ….

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile,….

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality..

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs..

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see image….

When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless..

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers..

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce..