A Visit To Père Lachaise In Paris

People Nowadays Like To Be Together Not In The Old-fashioned Way Of, Say, Mingling On The Piazza Of An Italian Renaissance City, But, Instead, Huddled Together In Traffic Jams, Bus Queues, On Escalators And So On. It's A New Kind Of Togetherness Which May Seem Totally Alien, But It's The Togetherness Of Modern Technology.

I've Never Suffered From Writer's Block. I Have Plenty Of Ideas, Sometimes Too Many. I've Always Had A Strong Imagination. If It Dries Up I'll Stop And Look For Another Career.

In The Past We Have Always Assumed That The External World Around Us Has Represented Reality, However Confusing Or Uncertain, And That The Inner World Of Our Minds, Its Dreams, Hopes, Ambitions, Represented The Realm Of Fantasy, And The Imagination. These Roles, It Seems To Me, Have Been Reversed. The Most Prudent And Effective Method Of Dealing With The World Around Us Is To Assume That It Is A Complete Fiction - Conversely, The One Small Node Of Reality Left To Us Is Inside Of Our Own Heads.

A Ton Of Proust Isn’t Worth An Ounce Of Ray Bradbury.

I Feel That The Surrealists Have Created A Series Of Valid External Landscapes Which Have Their Direct Correspondences Within Our Own Minds.