For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more! - Saul Bellow

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining?

California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.

And the process started over again. Once more it was, Who are you? And I had to confess that I didn't know where to begin.