That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.