If you have God on your side everything becomes clear.

There would seem to be a limit even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure a mere experimentation.

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and actually whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing has no education no money lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another through sheer force of will he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

When violence becomes imbedded in a region then this affects everything. It affects your dreams your fantasies and relationships and your religion becomes violent too.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet then something is clearly wrong.