Those Rituals Of Getting Ready To Write

History - An Account, Mostly False, Of Events, Mostly Unimportant

Self Knowledge Is Always Bad News.

It's Easier And Sociabler To Talk Technique Than It Is To Make Art.

The Horror Of Our History Has Purged Me Of Opinions.

To Turn Experience Into Speech - That Is, To Classify, To Categorize, To Conceptualize, To Grammarize, To Syntactify It - Is Always A Betrayal Of Experience, A Falsification Of It; But Only So Betrayed Can It Be Dealt With At All, And Only In So Dealing With It Did I Ever Feel A Man, Alive And Kicking.