“If there is progress then there is a novel.”

“Change happens when people care."From my novel in progress, Eco-Terrorist”

“If living is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.”

“This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.”

“Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...”

“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”