Robert Olen Butler Quotes
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.
The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.
