books

"We are sacrificing ourselves for our ready-made goods; we are consumers and live in such a way that the means may consume the end."

"“You don’t quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way,” said Cletus. “To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing. It’s what he doesn’t have that counts."

"The texture of experience is prior to everything else."

"Ingels: In America most of us - not readers alone but even writers - are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as ou…"

"Novel synopses, cover art, and reviews at FantasyLiterature.net"

"Downloadable resources regarding Oliver Hazard Perry, American Library Association."

"Purposeful life needs an axis or hinge to which it is firmly fixed and yet around which it can freely revolve. As I see it, this axis or hinge has been, in my own case, strongly enough, not the love o…"

"About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism… But it was tremendous – something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, …"

"A collection of dharma texts translated by Ven. Anzan Hoshin roshi. Various Dogen texts here."

"Those who live by bread alone will submit, for the sake of it, to the vilest abuse, like a hungry dog."

"How, then, should American literature deal with these people, crushed for centuries beneath an insufferable weight of exploitation, calumny and derision, yet always rising, their presence and their st…"

"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getti…"

"Australian Julius Sumner Miller tribute page"

"Writing a book is so strange. You start off in one spot and end up in another. But I think when I first set out to write the book, there was a certain element of trying to right historical wrongs I sa…"

"Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?"

"Poems of Henry Timrod: With Memoir and Portrait, 1901 edition at GoogleBooks"

"People are reading news for free on the web, that's got to change."

"It is a kind of vehicle, you know. It's a kind of making, spreading out ideas, that is what I think. It spreads out the idea. You must care for information and I personally try to make information ava…"

"You don't know what I'm up against. Because it's full of, of, of things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but they're tough on the ear, you see. This is a very wearying one. It's unpl…"

"A review of Beware of Pity at The New York Review of Books"