One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to be breadwinners.
We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
The wilderness within us is actually the best part of us.
Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.
The first things that babies can notice is sex; the first thing that you can tell about a person when you see them walking down the street is their gender.
Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.
The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency. ' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.
For God's sake, Marks, do you think anyone really wants a glance at those dried-up matchsticks you call legs?
Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!
Let no one steal your peace.