But for your Terror
Where would be Valour?
What is Love for
But to stand in your way?
Take and Giver,
For all your endeavour
You leave us with more
Than you touch with decay.
“I cannot believe that the expression of one’s ideas has anything to do with the making of literature. I don’t believe that ideas are a novelist’s problem. Ideas should be left to the people who have ideas — philosophers, politicians, teachers. Artists can be extremely dull in terms of what they believe, what they say, and what they do in their lives. Writers don’t think.”
Gilbert Sorrentino