“What was marriage but sex plus property.”

“Its frustration which makes creativity possible.”

“Theres a lot of degradation in sex, isnt there?When its done right.”

“My blackness is spreading, Alice. Ive been seeing and hearing things that cant be there or anywhere. At night, when Im not hallucinating mad women, I can feel depression starting to burn me around ...”

“Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, f...”

“The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely mans most fatal creation, the devils kitsch bitch. It was God, with his ...”

“Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision...”

“Stories nurture our connection to place and to each other. They show us where we have been and where we can go. They remind us of how to be human, how to live alongside the other lives that animate...”

“One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportio...”