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Any Assault On The Borders Of Perception Is Going To Seem Rash At First.

To Be A Tourist Is To Escape Accountability.

One Connection I See Between Novelists And Terrorists Is That We Both Attempt To Alter Consciousness.

There's A Curious Knot That Binds Novelists And Terrorists...years Ago I Used To Think It Was Possible For A Novelist To Alter The Inner Life Of The Culture. Now Bomb-makers And Gunmen Have Taken That Territory. They Make Raids On Human Consciousness. What Writers Used To Do Before We Were All Incorporated.

It's Not Enough To Hate Your Enemy. You Have To Understand How The Two Of You Bring Each Other To Deep Completion.