Art's Too Long And Life's Too Short.

What We Owe Men Is Some Freedom From Their Part In A Murderous Game In Which They Kick Each Other To Death With One Foot, Bracing Themselves On Our Various Comfortable Places With The Other.

Sometimes You Find That What Is Most Personal Is Also What Connects You Most Strongly With Others.

It Wasn't Until I Lived In The Countryside That I Began To Understand The Life Of The Countryside And The People In It And Trees And Water. Just Learning About Water Is An Education For A City Person.

There Isn't A Story Written That Isn't About Blood And Money. People And Their Relationship To Each Other Is The Blood, The Family. And How They Live, The Money Of It.

I Do Lots Of Reading And Speaking At Many Universities About Literature And Also About Politics, Which Is As Much A Part Of My Life As The Literature.