Eric Hinkle’s Reviews > The Eighth Life > Status Update

"I often used to wonder what would happen if the world's collective memory had retained different things and lost others. If we had forgotten all the wars and all those countless kings, rulers, leaders, and mercenaries, and the only people to be read about in books were those who had built a house with their own hands, planted a garden, discovered a giraffe, described a cloud, praised the nape of a woman's neck."

"Happiness was mere survival."

Funny, that's how I feel at work these days.

"...[literature is] the anchor in the black lake of life."

"Only eight months after the revolution, a leadership profile had established itself that would lead inevitably to civil war: the concentration of power in the hands of a few leaders, the pursuit of economic and information monopolies, and discrimination against certain sections of the population."