It's Not The Gods But Our Own

Poetry, I Think, Intensifies The Reader's Experience. If It's A Humorous Facet Of The Story, Poetry Makes It More Exuberant. If It's A Sad Facet, Poetry Can Make It More Poignant.

And The Process Of Reading Is Such A Private One. I Once Came Into A Room Where A Friend Of Mine Was Reading One Of My Books, And He Clicked His Tongue Impatiently And Shooed Me Off.

Fiction Basically Is A Form Of Gossip Where You Want To Enter Other People's Lives, The Lives Of People You Don't Know, And You Want To Know What's Going To Happen To Them.

In Life's Brief Game To Be A Winner A Man Must Have...oh Yes, Above All Else, Of Course, Someone To Love.

I Think It's Possible To Be Multi-rooted, Rather Like A Banyan Tree, Without Being Deracinated.