The Boundary Between Philosophy And Fiction Is

I Don't Think There's Any Great Mystery To Writing Female Characters, So Long As You Talk To Them. If You Lived In A Monastery And Never Met Any Women, Maybe It Would Be Difficult.

Knotty Theological Questions Are The Least Worrying Of Problems To Me. Why? Because They Will Be Resolved In The Hereafter, And Meanwhile They Can Be Safely Shelved.

The Research Is The Easiest. The Outline Is The Most Fun. The First Draft Is The Hardest, Because Every Word Of The Outline Has To Be Fleshed Out. The Rewrite Is Very Satisfying.

There Was A Very Serious Communist Strain Among American Intellectuals Before The War. America Was A More Tolerant Place In Those Days, And Communists Were Not Treated As Pariahs. That Ended With The Mccarthy Era.

When You've Lost Everything, You've Got Nothing To Lose.