A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

Life is a state of mind.