I Have Lived A Thousand Lives Lost

I Have Always Had A Sense That We Are All Pretty Much Alone In Life, Particularly In Adolescence.

It Would Be Nice To Avoid The World, To Leave It And All Its Threats And Unhappiness. Not To Die Or Anything Like That, But To Find A Place Of Solitude And Solace.

A Terrific Sadness Swept Over Jerry. As If Somebody Had Died. The Way He Felt Standing In The Cemetry That Day They Buried His Mother. And Nothing You Could Do About It.

You Seldom Get A Censorship Attempt From A 14-year-old Boy. It's The Adults Who Get Upset.

He Hated To Think Of His Own Life Stretching Ahead Of Him That Way, A Long Succession Of Days And Nights That Were Fine - Not Good, Not Bad, Not Great, Not Lousy, Not Exciting, Not Anything.