I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him