One's Obligation Every Day, Is To Choose

I Wish That I Could Love Someone So Much That I Would Die From It.

An Ugly Thing, That Is What You Are When You Become A Tourist, An Ugly, Empty Thing, A Stupid Thing, A Piece Of Rubbish Pausing Here And There To Gaze At This And Taste That, And It Will Never Occur To You That The People Who Inhabit The Place In Which You Have Just Paused Cannot Stand You.

"race." I Really Can't Understand It As Anything Other Than Something People Say. The People Who Have Said That You And I Are Both "black" And Therefore Deserve A Certain Kind Of Interaction With The World, They Make Race. I Can't Take Them Seriously.

But You Know, Where Did The Brontes Go To College? Where Did George Eliot Go To College? Where Did Thomas Paine Or Thomas Jefferson Or George Washington Go? Did George Washington Go To College? This Idea Which We Now Have That People Ought To Have These Credentials Is Really Ridiculous. Where Did Homer Go To College?

I Didn't Know It Was Possible To Be Successful As A Writer, So I Wasn't Afraid To Fail.