Nothing Factual That I Write

You Can't Change A Regime On The Basis Of Compassion. There's Got To Be Something Harder.

There Is No Moral Authority Like That Of Sacrifice.

Power Is Something Of Which I Am Convinced There Is No Innocence This Side Of The Womb.

Any Writer Of Any Worth At All Hopes To Play Only A Pocket-torch Of Light - And Rarely, Through Genius, A Sudden Flambeau - Into The Bloody Yet Beautiful Labyrinth Of Human Experience, Of Being.

What A Writer Does Is To Try To Make Sense Of Life. I Think That's What Writing Is, I Think That's What Painting Is. It's Seeking That Thread Of Order And Logic In The Disorder, And The Incredible Waste And Marvelous Profligate Character Of Life. What All Artists Are Trying To Do Is To Make Sense Of Life.