But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the worldโฆby getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.
But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?
I listened to them fade away till all I could hear was my memory of the sound.
I been away a long time.
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.