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I Think That If The Novel's Task Is To Describe Where We Find Ourselves And How We Live Now, The Novelist Must Take A Good, Hard Look At The Most Central Facts Of Contemporary Life - Technology And Science.

The Thing That Makes Reading And Writing Suspect In The Eyes Of The Market Economy Is That It's Not Corrupted.

Evil Is The Refusal To See One's Self In Others.

Science Is Not About Control. It Is About Cultivating A Perpetual Condition Of Wonder In The Face Of Something That Forever Grows One Step Richer And Subtler Than Our Latest Theory About It. It Is About Reverence, Not Mastery.

Music Forecasts The Past, Recalls The Future. Now And Then The Difference Falls Away, And In One Simple Gift Of Circling Sound, The Ear Solves The Scrambled Cryptogram. One Abiding Rhythm, Present And Always, And You're Free. But A Few Measures More, And The Cloak Of Time Closes Back Around You.