Mark's Scrapbook of Oddities & Treasures.

““There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.””

““The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.””

“I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”