The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush. Votes: 11
Every love story is a ghost story. Votes: 0
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Votes: 0
You get to decide what to worship. Votes: 0
People hate people, not freedom. Votes: 0
The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. Votes: 0
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes. Votes: 0
Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. Votes: 0
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesnât augur well for my longevity Votes: 0
People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Votes: 0
I wish you way more than luck. Votes: 0
I had, by thirteen, developed a sort of Taoist hubris about my ability to control via non-control. Votes: 0
We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies. Votes: 0
You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship. Votes: 0
Do not underestimate objects. Votes: 0
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Votes: 0
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. Votes: 0
Ideally, each piece of art's its own unique object, and its evaluation's always present-tense. Votes: 0
I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. Votes: 0
I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsmanâs eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me. Votes: 0
So yo then man what's your story? Votes: 0
Mediocrity is contextual. Votes: 0
every failure is also a victory. Votes: 0
...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad. Votes: 0
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. Votes: 0
I am not what you see and hear. -Hal Votes: 0
...morning is the soul's night. Votes: 0