![]() – interview granted to two Arizona high school students via email, 2014. ![]() Writing is very subconscious and the last thing I want to do is think about it. If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable. If you break little promises, you’ll break big ones. Just be mean and cruel and you can destroy the best person. But whatever he is, you can sure destroy it. There’s not much you can do to try to make a child into something that he’s not. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble. I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? I have no desire to go on a trip. In recent years, I have had no desire to do anything but work and be with John. To not be able to talk about it is very odd. They died in their bed at home with everyone gathered around. It used to be if you grew up in a family you saw everybody die. He slept and when he woke he’d dreamt of the dead standing about in their bones and the dark sockets of their eyes that were indeed without speculation bottomed in the void wherein lay a terrible intelligence common to all but of which none would speak. Nothin else.īetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. ![]() Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. Here are some of his most memorable quotes: On violence: ![]()
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