I'm an actor that cares.
Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.
Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.
My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times
There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.