Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 16, 1928 Death: March 2, 1982
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomen….
There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured ….
I have seen myself backward..
You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer." "Did he show you slides?" We both laughed. Whe….
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world w….
…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people..
Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought.
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression..
I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will se….
Whom the gods notice they destroy..
What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all..
Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoreti….
The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek p….
How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?.
There was a beauty in the trash of the alleys which I had never noticed before; my vision seemed sharpened, rather than impaired. As I walked along i….
It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to b….
All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with n….
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever..
When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression..
When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet..