I've Never Been Resigned To Ready-made Ideas

Knowledge Is A Collective Enterprise. Without It Understanding Is Impossible. Ignorance Is Too Often A Murderous Vulnerability.

I Had Always Said To Myself That Forty Was The Cut Off Point Of My Apprenticeship Which May For Some People Sound Like A Very Long One, But The Novel As Art Is A Middle-aged Art.

If The Tenth Of The Population That Is Gay Became Visible Tomorrow, The Panic Of The Majority Of People Would Inspire Repressive Legislation Of A Sort That Would Shock Even The Pessimists Among Us.

Writing Is Far Too Hard Work To Say What Someone Else Wants Me To. Serving It As A Craft, Using It As A Way Of Growing In My Own Understanding, Seems To Me To Be A Beautiful Way To Live. And If That Product Is Shareable With Other People, So Much The Better.

Human Beings Tolerate What They Understand They Have To Tolerate.