Everyone Operates Within Their Own Domain And

There's No Connection Between Consumption Of Art And Moral Stamina At All.

I Know A Lot Of People In The City, At All Levels, Horizontally And Vertically - And That To Me Is A Privilege, To Me As A Person But Also A Writer. I've Dined With Billionaires, And I Play Soccer With Busboys.

There's No Bad Writing; You Did Something. I Was Operating Inside Language, And I Did Something. I'm Not Ashamed Of It.

One Builds One's Life In Consistency; One Invests It With The Belief, However Unsupported By Reality, That One Has Always Been What One Is Now, That Even In One's Distant Past One Could Recognize The Seed From Which This Doomed Flower Has Bloomed.

I Cannot Think Of A Country In Which I Would Be Happy With The Government And Dominant Ideology And Available Propaganda.