My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.
Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.
One is but a shade of the other.
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. " But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing. . . playing helpless.
If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and the manuscript for THE BIG O.
The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.