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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religio...more

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Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed paintin...more

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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and ha...more

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Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.

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Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find th...more

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You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unl...more

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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you g...more