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The Difference Between Socrates And Jesus Is That No One Had Ever Been Put To Death In Socrates' Name. And That Is Because Socrates' Ideas Were Never Made Law. Law, In Whatever Name, Protects Privilege.

A Writer's Life Is So Hazardous That Anything He Does Is Bad For Him. Anything That Happens To Him Is Bad: Failure's Bad, Success Is Bad; Impoverishment Is Bad, Money Is Very, Very Bad. Nothing Good Can Happen... Except The Act Of Writing.

Movies Are Too Literal.

A Novelist Is A Person Who Lives In Other People's Skins.

A Writer Of Books Has To Admit That Film Is The Enemy, And That In My Case I Have Been Sleeping With The Enemy.