There Is No Higher Form Of Artistic

I Looked At Lucas With The Pang That A Parent Feels When He Knows His Child Will Be Hurt And That It's No One's Fault And That To Try To Preempt The Rites Of Passage Is An Act Of Contempt For The Child's Courage.

The System Shaves The Dice On The Side Of Those With Money And Power, And Anyone Who Believes Otherwise Deserves Anything That Happens To Him.

I Think The "crime Novel" Has Replaced The Sociological Novel Of The 1930s. I Think The Progenitor Of That Tradition Is James M. Cain, Who In My View Is The Most Neglected Writer In American Literature.

My Experience Has Been That People Who Die For Causes Have Few Friends In Death.

I Sometimes Subscribe To The Belief That All Historical Events Occur Simultaneously, Like A Dream In The Mind Of God. Perhaps It Is Only Man Who Views Time Sequentially And Tries To Impose A Solar Calendar Upon It. What If Other People, Both Dead And Unborn, Are Living Out Their Lives In The Same Space We Occupy, Without Our Knowledge Or Consent?" The Glass Rainbow, P. 138