talk about insight

There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.


Jean Pierre de Caussade SJ

why worry about our culture

Q

How would you describe the kind of interaction you see

       between what you do as a publisher,

 a professor and a non-fiction writer,

 and what it is you're up to as a fiction writer?

 

A

Down with phony distinctions.

 I'm not a novelist & publisher, etc.

--I'm an always emerging wordturd--

it's all part of the same braunschweiger--

chop off a bit to fry up as an essay,

 another bit to boil as a press release,

a hunk slowly roasted as a novel,

and if you keep moving maybe they won't catch you

......

on thoughts and affections

Nobody deserves your tears,
but whoever deserves them
will not make you cry.


                          Gabriel Garcia Marquez