“Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life. It is the thing that, like love, removes one both painfully and deliciously from the ordinary shape of existence. It joins another queasy paradox: that life is an amazing, hilarious, blessed gift and that it is also intolerable.” WritingArtLife IsExistenceShapesOrdinaryBlessedArtisticRemoveParadoxLike LoveExcursionsArtistic Life Author:Lorrie Moore
“Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?” Life IsOrderSituationOur LivesParadoxGaining Power Book:The Man in the High Castle Source: The Man in the High Castle