A Writer Must Be Hard To Live

By The Age Of Forty, A Man Is Responsible For His Face. And His Fate.

The Rifle And Handgun Are 'equalizers' -- The Weapons Of A Democracy. Tanks And Bombers Represent Dictatorship.

To Meet God Or Medusa Face To Face, Even If It Means Risking Everything Human In Myself. I Dream Of A Hard And Brutal Mysticism In Which The Naked Self Merges With The Nonhuman World And Yet Somehow Survives Still Intact Individual, Separate. Paradox And Bedrock.

The Author: An Imaginary Person Who Writes Real Books.

Great Art Is Never Perfect; Perfect Art Is Never Great.