... Where A Man's Wound Is, That

If You Want To Know What It Will Be Like When We Are More Deeply Into The Horizontal, Simply Go To One Of The Indian Casinos. The Native Americans, Who Stand For Vertical Thinking More Than Anyone Else In Our Culture, Have Been Setting Up Totally Flat Casinos For Honkies.

Every Noon As The Clock Hands Arrive At Twelve, I Want To Tie The Two Arms Together, And Walk Out Of The Bank Carrying Time In Bags.

All Of Those On The Left, As I Am, Have Always Vastly Preferred The Democratic Society Over The Hierarchical Society And Still Do, But The Democratic Culture Doesn't Exist Without Highly Informed Citizens Capable Of Thinking Well, And If You Have Schools In Which 40 Percent Of The People Coming Out Of Them Cannot Make Change For A Dollar, You Don't Have A Democracy. You Have A Sibling Society.

Every Part Of Our Personality That We Do Not Love Will Become Hostile To Us.

When Anyone Seriously Pursues An Art - Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Composing - Over Twenty Or Thirty Years, The Sustained Discipline Carries The Artist Down To The Countryside Of Grief, And That Descent, Resisted So Long Proves Invigorating. . . . As I've Gotten Older, I Find I Am Able To Be Nourished More By Sorrow And To Distinguish It From Depression.