English Majors Understand Human Nature Better Than

Novelists Of A Conservative Or More Purely Aesthetic Bent Hold Up Better On The Surface, But Their Novels Go In And Out Of Fashion According To Relevance Or Irrelevance.

Not Every Novel That Wants To Be A Tragedy Gets To Be One.

Many People, Myself Among Them, Feel Better At The Mere Sight Of A Book.

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.

A Child Who Is Protected From All Controversial Ideas Is As Vulnerable As A Child Who Is Protected From Every Germ. The Infection, When It Comes- And It Will Come- May Overwhelm The System, Be It The Immune System Or The Belief System.