"Sword of the Stranger"

"Made in Fante": Dan Fante writer portrait - Documentary, 2004"

"The Poetry of Archilochos"

"Lao-tzu’s words, was: place all your feelings outside of yourself and you will be renewed."

"So I guess the first thing I would say is: you need to write a story that, unlike my story, has a beginning…"

"But words are imperfect, and our system of writing, for all its great glories, has its limitations in terms…"

"In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connota…"