Art Is Whether Or Not There Is

He Taught Them That The Purpose Of A Man Is To Make His Life Holy--every Aspect Of His Life: Eating, Drinking Praying, Sleeping. God Is Everywhere, He Told Them, And If It Seems At Times That He Is Hidden From Us, It Is Only Because We Have Not Yet Learned To Seek Him Correctly.

A Word Is Worth One Coin, Silence Is Worth Two

Each Work Seems To Give Me The Most Trouble At The Time I'm Working On It.

I Do Not Have Many Things That Are Meaningful To Me. Except My Doubts And My Fears. And My Art.

To The Extent That I Come From A Deeply Religious Tradition And Have Been Contending With Those Beginnings All Of My Life - That Constitutes The Subject Of Much Of My Early Fiction.