[to Be An Artist,] This Desire To

[america Is] The Land Where People Find Whatever They Have Lost.

I Have Found That Words That Are Loaded With Pathos And Create A Seductive Euphoria Are Apt To Promote Nonsense.

I Expected More From Literature Than From Real, Naked Life.

I Shall Speak Of How Melancholy And Utopia Preclude One Another. How They Fertilize One Another... Of The Revulsion That Follows One Insight And Precedes The Next... Of Superabundance And Surfeit. Of Stasis In Progress. And Of Myself, For Whom Melancholy And Utopia Are Heads And Tails Of The Same Coin.

We Already Have The Statistics For The Future: The Growth Percentages Of Pollution, Overpopulation, Desertification. The Future Is Already In Place.