Lord, Why Did You Leave Me In

If You Have Information You've Got The World By The Balls. But We Have To Convert Information Into Knowledge In Order To Make It Humanly Useful.

I Actually Didn't Listen To The Beatles Song 'nowhere Man' When I Was Writing My Book Of The Same Name. What I Listened To A Lot Was 'abbey Road.' Its Disjointedness And Its Readiness To Confuse Only To Delight Were Inspiring To Me.

You Can See The Diversity That Pieces In The Anthology Represent, And Then The Interconnections-obvious And Less Obvious-between Various Stories Or Between Various Modes Of Storytelling. Diversity Generates Need For Conversation, Conversation Generates Common Interests, As Well As Differences. Literature, As A Human Project, Is All About That.

You Have To Suspend Thinking In Narratives. The Moment You Are Conscious Of Yourself The Gap Opens Up. And In This Gap, Stories Are Generated.

We Hated Pretentiousness; It Was A Form Of Self-hatred.