Novelists Never Have To Footnote.

Another Thing I Learned Is That Novels, Even Those From Apparently Distant Times And Places, Remain Current And Enlightening, And Also Comforting.

One Of The Profound Effects Of Economics In Our Day Is That The People With The Money And The Power Have Embraced The Guilt-free, External-less, Everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end Philosophy Of Economics In Order To Justify Their Own Evil Works. And The Economists, For The Most Part, Have Sucked Up To That Money.

When I Went To First Grade And The Other Children Said That Their Fathers Were Farmers, I Simply Didn't Believe Them. I Agreed In Order To Be Polite, But In My Heart I Knew That Those Men Were Impostors, As Farmers And As Fathers, Too. In My Youthful Estimation, Laurence Cook Defined Both Categories. To Really Believe That Others Even Existed In Either Category Was To Break The First Commandment.

Some People Do Wait Their Whole Lives For Something, And It's Only When That Thing Arrives That They Find Out That They've Been Waiting Rather Than Living.

Horse Racing Is Really Much More Intimidating Than Anything Having To Do With Literature. When I Had Horses At The Racetrack, I Would Wake Up In Terror In A Way That I Would Never Wake Up While Working On A Novel.