"The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew."

-- John Milton

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“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”
“I'm so extremely well prepared for negative response, I've taken precautions.”

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“Iâ€™m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyoneâ€™s work should be-whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If youâ€™re lucky, you learn something.”
“I would far rather convey grace than explain it.”
“When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.”
“writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.”
“In Madison's famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we "first enable the government to control the governed." If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.”
“Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. It does or doesn't disturb optical monotony, and succeeds or fails in surmounting sterility of style or visual stereotype; it creates new beauty or it doesn't.”

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