My Wife Is My First Audience. She's

Less Real Than Such Threats As A Man With A Gun, A Woman With A Knife, Or A U.s. Senator With An Idea.

When I Am Battered And Oppressed By The World That Humanity Has Made - Which Is Difference From The World That Is Was Given - My Primary Defense, My Consolation, Is The Absurdity Of That World

Pain Can Be Endured And Defeated Only If It Is Embraced. Denied Or Feared, It Grows.

Because People See Violence On The Movie Screen, They're Not Going To Go Out And Hold Up A Liquor Store And Kill Somebody. It Really Doesn't Correlate.

I Believe In The Possibility Of Miracles But, More To The Point, I Believe In Our Need For Them.