"A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends."

-- Samuel R. Delany

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“There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.”
“Most people are sensitized to animals through their cats and dogs, but for me it was a flounder. I used to go fishing with my dad as a kid and always felt bad about yanking these panic-stricken creatures from the water. I stopped eating fish as an adolescent and went vegan at twenty.”

Source : "Senior VP of PETA Dan Mathews: On gay rights, empathy for animals, and getting married under the Las Vegas sign". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.”

Source : "It's an intimate love story between two men. Try selling that to Warner Bros". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.
“In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me”
“I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.”
“I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.”
“After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.”

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