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What you do with your money in order to satisfy your urge to gamble and to speculate is your own private concern.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

He took a sip of my father's weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit's like making love in a canoe." "Excuse me?" "It's fucking near water.

The lesson that this great biologist teaches us is simple: Statistics are information, not condemnation.

At the same time, the statistics are useful in a sobering way. They inform us that our adversary is formidable and they guard us against irrational optimism.

I'm drawn to literature instead as a form of thinking

think it's a poetry that comes out of the stuff of the poet's personal life, but he's trying to render this experience in more general and inclusive, or what used to be called universal

Is it possible that contemporary literary prizes are a bit like the federal bailout package, subsidizing work that is no longer remotely describing reality?

I admire your work and was a big fan of your lecture, so the misunderstanding between us is particularly painful to me. I take these issues very seriously and am, I think, alert to nuances in this regard, as I hope my work demonstrates.

That's why anyone claiming morality is fixed is simply ignorant of world history, or even American history, not to mention the state of the world today.

Fighting God is fighting a war for freedom of thought, which is the most important freedom we have.

It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department. Captains

It's not about the Game of Thrones, it's about the game of universals versus particulars, thinking versus sensing. Which side are you on? Who shall wear the crown? – the Senser or the Thinker. Do you even need to think about that?

Science is to mathematics as Protestantism is to Catholicism, an irrational protest against reason, based on faith.

The truth is way more depressing. They're not even smart enough to be as evil as you're giving them credit for.

It seems symbolic that I can't write my name anymore," she told Mr. Nosy.

No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation.

Place in writing often exists at that intersection between the reality of place and one's imagination about that place -- what one believes, hopes, or imagines about the various possibilities of oneself in that place.

But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers, then they're not going to be interested.

won literary prizes of some note, twice being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for instance, and once winning it outright (Saville). Their styles of presentation might be described as 'elemental': in the case of Radcliffe,

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.