The Aim Of Literature ... Is The

Instant Gratification Is Not As Good As That Gratification Which Comes Dripping Slow, Over The Sere Seasons.

I Am Never Needlessly Obscure - I Am Needfully Obscure, When I Am Obscure.

The Death Of God Left The Angels In A Strange Position.

The Not-knowing Is Crucial To Art, Is What Permits Art To Be Made. Without The Scanning Process Engendered By Not-knowing, Without The Possibility Of Having The Mind Move In Unanticipated Directions, There Would Be No Invention.

I Don't Believe That We Are What We Do Although Many Thinkers Argue Otherwise. I Believe That What We Do Is, Very Often, A Poor Approximation Of What We Are -- An Imperfect Manifestation Of A Much Better Totality. Even The Best Of Us Sometimes Bite Off, As It Were, Less Than We Can Chew.