History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
The ordinary is the divine.
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.
Death persecutes before it executes.
literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.