Tag: books

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty....

It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem....

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly....

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor....

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions – simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to...

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow....

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To...

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?...

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all...

We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming ‘sub-creator’...