“All children are manipulators.”

Source: Green Eyes (1984), Chapter 6, p. 46

Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Disavowal of transcendence, p. 84 -->
Context: Exclusive manipulation results in the dissolution of awareness of all transcendence. Promise becomes a pretext, God becomes a symbol, truth a fiction, loyalty tentative, the holy a mere convention. Man’s very existence devours all transcendence. Instead of facing the grandeur of the cosmos, he explains it away; instead of beholding, he takes a picture; instead of hearing a voice, he tapes it. He does not see what he is able to face. There is a suspension of man’s sense of the holy. His mind is becoming a wall instead of being a door open to what is larger than the scope of his comprehension. He locks himself out of the world by reducing all reality to mere things and all relationship to mere manipulation. Transcendence is not an article of faith. It is what we come upon immediately when standing face to face with reality.

Source: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 92)

"The Reach of Imagination" (1967)

"Claus von Bülow" (1983)
The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America (1986)

Source: Bullet

In an interview in Cineaste, 1991
Interviews

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