The Process Of Transformation Consists Mostly Of

The Bigness Of The World Is Redemption. Despair Compresses You Into A Small Space, And A Depression Is Literally A Hollow In The Ground. To Dig Deeper Into The Self, To Go Underground, Is Sometimes Necessary, But So Is The Other Route Of Getting Out Of Yourself, Into The Larger World, Into The Openness In Which You Need Not Clutch Your Story And Your Troubles So Tightly To Your Chest.

A Contrarian At Heart, I Am Often Guided By What I Disagree With And Don't Want.

I Sometimes Wonder What Those Of Us Who Are Writers Would Become In A Nonliterary Culture - Storytellers? Hermits?

We Know Less When We Erroneously Think We Know Than When We Recognize That We Don't.

Books Are Solitudes In Which We Meet.