In Deep Sadness There Is No Place

Cheat Your Landlord If You Can -- And Must -- But Do Not Try To Shortchange The Muse.

The Only Possible Ethic Is To Do What One Wants To Do.

Writers, Like Elephants, Have Long, Vicious Memories. There Are Things I Wish I Could Forget.

The Program Of The Ruling Elite In Orwell's 1984 Was: "a Foot Stamping On A Human Face Forever!" This Is Naive And Optimistic. No Species Could Survive For Even A Generation Under Such Program. This Is Not A Program Of Eternal, Or Even Long-range Dominance. It Is Clearly An Extermination Program.

In Deep Sadness There Is No Place For Sentimentality. It Is As Final As The Mountains: A Fact. There It Is. When You Realize It You Cannot Complain.