This Desert Town Was Man's Own Miracle

Knowledge Is A Collective Enterprise. Without It Understanding Is Impossible. Ignorance Is Too Often A Murderous Vulnerability.

Morality For The Novelist Is Expressed Not So Much In The Choice Of Subject Matter As In The Plot Of The Narrative, Which Is Perhaps Why In Our Morally Bewildered Time Novelists Have Often Been Timid About Plot.

Morality Is A Test Of Our Conformity Rather Than Our Integrity.

I've Never Been Resigned To Ready-made Ideas As I Was To Ready-made Clothes, Perhaps Because Although I Couldn't Sew, I Could Think.

People Genuinely Happy In Their Choices Seem Less Often Tempted To Force Them On Other People Than Those Who Feel Martyred And Broken By Their Lives.