For Me, A Writer Should Be More

…the Doctrinal Differences Between Hinduism And Buddhism And Taoism Are Not Anywhere Near As Important As Doctrinal Differences Among Christianity And Islam And Judaism. Holy Wars Are Not Fought Over Them Because Verbalized Statements About Reality Are Never Presumed To Be Reality Itself.

You Go Up The Mountaintop And All You're Gonna Get Is A Great Big Heavy Stone Tablet Handed To You With A Bunch Of Rules On It.

How Are You Going To Teach Virtue If You Teach The Relativity Of All Ethical Ideas? Virtue, If It Implies Anything At All, Implies An Ethical Absolute. A Person Whose Idea Of What Is Proper Varies From Day To Day Can Be Admired For His Broadmindedness, But Not For His Virtue.

I Go On Living, More From Force Of Habit Than Anything Else.

We’re In Such A Hurry Most Of The Time We Never Get Much Chance To Talk. The Result Is A Kind Of Endless Day-to-day Shallowness, A Monotony That Leaves A Person Wondering Years Later Where All The Time Went And Sorry That It’s All Gone.