[b]Jeanette Winterson
In this life, you have to be your own hero.[/b]
That can’t be good, Kids.
Writers are not here to conform. We are here to challenge. We’re not here to be comfortable—we’re here, really, to shake things up. That’s our job.
That is certainly my job there.
You know where.
I am not tempted by God but I love his trappings.
She meant the Devil of course.
‘I love you’ is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I.
Going all the way back [so far] to Adam and Eve.
The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one’s own chaos was also brought under control.
Whenever I am troubled, said the librarian, I think about the Dewey decimal system.
Then what happens? asked the junior, rather overawed.
Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course—as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness.
Don’t suppose that will work for all of us.
I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anyone, an absentee boss is best.
On the other hand, He does see all.