Nothing True Can Be Said

You Never Know When You Might Be Seeing Someone For The Last Time.

I Did Go Through Graduate School And I Like To Do Research, To Create Something That Has A Certain Objective Solidity. The Same Thing Influences My Fiction To Some Degree, Because, You Know, My Fiction Is Often Based On History That I've Read.

That Odd Capacity For Destitution, As If By Nature We Ought To Have So Much More Than Nature Gives Us. As If We Are Shockingly Unclothed When We Lack The Complacencies Of Ordinary Life. In Destitution, Even Of Feeling Or Purpose, A Human Being Is More Hauntingly Human And Vulnerable To Kindnesses Because There Is The Sense That Things Should Be Otherwise, And Then The Thought Of What Is Wanting And What Alleviation Would Be, And How The Soul Could Be Put At Ease, Restored. At Home. But The Soul Finds Its Own Home If It Ever Has A Home At All.

I Think To The Degree Writers Are Serious, There Is A Greater Tendency For Them To Write To Themselves, Because They're Trying To Compose Their Own Thoughts. They Are Trying To Find Out What Is In Their Minds, Which Is The Great Mystery. Finding Out Who You Are, What Is In Your Head, And What Kind Of Companion You Are To Yourself In The Course Of Life. I Do Think People Have Very Profound Lives Of Which They Say Virtually Nothing.

The Model For Our Early Bankruptcy Laws Was Deuteronomy, The Idea That, Under Certain Circumstances - In Deuteronomy, It Is Simply The Passage Of Seven Years' Time - People Are Released From Debt, Simply Because They Are Released From Debt. No More Debt. You Start Over Again. This Has Been A Very Powerful Model In This Country. It's Being Destroyed Now. People Talk About How Much New Employment, New Wealth, And So On Are Continuously Generated In This Country.