Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.
In the traditional urban novel there is only survival or not. The suburban idea the conformist idea that agony can be seen to and cured by doctors or psychoanalysis or self-knowledge is nowhere to be found in the city. Talking is a way of life but it is not a cure. Same with religion.
There can never be such a thing as a free market because it is human nature to cheat monopolize and buy off others so as to corner the market.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
My mom was paranoid about my safety.
Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now not even my mom.
In December 1998 I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship one that had grown more slowly than I had wished but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud – 2000 miles in a what? Well my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
I loved the house the way you would any new house because it is populated by your future the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
Respect and fear are two different things.
