To Listen Acutely Is To Be Powerless,

When Something Does Not Insist On Being Noticed, When We Aren't Grabbed By The Collar Or Struck On The Skull By A Presence Or An Event, We Take For Granted The Very Things That Most Deserve Our Gratitude.

Is There A Word More Passionate Than Passion? Obsession, Total Immersion, The Feeling That Everything Else Doesn't Matter.

The Secular Jew Is A Figment; When A Jew Becomes A Secular Person He Is No Longer A Jew.

The Power Of Language, It Seems To Me, Is The Only Kind Of Power A Writer Is Entitled To.

Above All, A Book Is A Riverbank For The River Of Language. Language Without The Riverbank Is Only Television Talk - A Free Fall, A Loose Splash, A Spill.