Writing A Novel Is Like Driving A

I Try To Avoid Experience If I Can. Most Experience Is Bad.

We Make A Mistake To Condescend To The Past As If It Were Preparatory To Our Own Time.

So That Individuation May Be Compared To A Pyramid In That It Is Only Achieved By The Placement Of The Top Stone… The Jews, Ford Said. They Ain't Like Anyone Else I Know. There Goes You Theory Up Shits Creek. He Smiled.

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