What is the constitution of the universe? The universe is the manifestation of the divine thought; the thought of God embodies itself in the thought-forms that we call worlds.
Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.
All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.
I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.
