I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.