One Reason Writers Write Is Out Of

If Ideas Are What Feed Serious Literature And Arresting Language, Who Today Is Writing A Novel Of Ideas (which Can Often Mean Comedy)? I Think Of Joshua Cohen. Who Else?

To Be Any Sort Of Competent Writer One Must Keep One's Psychological Distance From The Supreme Artists.

Nothing Is So Awesomely Unfamiliar As The Familiar That Discloses Itself At The End Of A Journey. Nothing Shakes The Heart So Much As Meeting-far, Far Away-what You Last Met At Home.

To Listen Acutely Is To Be Powerless, Even If You Sit On A Throne.

To Want To Be What One Can Be Is Purpose In Life.