Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 8, 1937
Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane..
A screaming comes across the sky..
Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs..
I came," she said, "hoping you could talk me out of a fantasy." Cherish it!" cried Hilarious, fiercely. "What else do any of you have? Hold it tightl….
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the….
Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read..
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem..
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers..
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it..
All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the….
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or ….
She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds….
this is america, you live in it, you let it happen. let it unfurl..
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads..
Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up..
Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do..
To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult..
Why should things be easy to understand?.
You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure w….
There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chao….
The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will..