“Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades–words, words, but they hold the horror of the world . . . ...

“People don’t have stories, just lives that no one wants to hear about.” – John Koethe, “Tempting Fate” ...

“Read as little as possible of literary criticism — such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and ...