Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical perf…

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

After the Storm (The Schooner 'Flight' (1980))

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

Seymour'd told me to shine my shoes just as I was going out the door with Waker. I was furious. The studio audience were all morons, the announcer was a moron,…

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achieve…