Good Novels Are Not Written,

If True Computer Music Were Ever Written, It Would Only Be Listened To By Other Computers.

In Any Case, You Read With Exasperation Or Amusement The Multiple Errors In A Story-and Then Turn The Page To National Or International Affairs, And Read With Renewed Interest As If The Rest Of The Newspaper Was Somehow More Accurate About Far-off Palestine Than It Was About The Story You Just Read. You Turn The Page, And Forget What You Know.

Because The History Of Evolution Is That Life Escapes All Barriers. Life Breaks Free. Life Expands To New Territories. Painfully, Perhaps Even Dangerously. But Life Finds A Way.

Life Will Find A Way.

Most Areas Of Intellectual Life Have Discovered The Virtues Of Speculation, And Have Embraced Them Wildly. In Academia, Speculation Is Usually Dignified As Theory.