I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.
Being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.