Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.