Ambition, If It Feeds At All, Does

Taste Has No System And No Proofs.

When You Are Writing, You Are - From Society's Point Of View - Only Producing The First Version Which Will Then Be Processed And Recycled.

Life Is A Movie; Death Is A Photograph.

The Fact That Illness Is Associated With The Poor --who Are, From The Perspective Of The Privileged, Aliens In One's Midst --reinforces The Association Of Illness With The Foreign With An Exotic, Often Primitive Place.

Literature Can Train, And Exercise, Our Ability To Weep For Those Who Are Not Us Or Ours.