Art is the triumph over chaos.
From John Cheever
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
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