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The Constants That I Look For Are A Love Of Light And A Determination To Trace Some Moral Chain Of Being.

To Be An American And Unable To Play Baseball Is Comparable To Being A Polynesian And Unable To Swim.

Without A Reader, I Cannot Write. It's Like A Kiss: They Cannot Be Done Alone.

The Short Story Is The Literature Of The Nomad.

To Disguise Nothing, To Conceal Nothing, To Write About Those Things That Are Closest To Our Pain, Our Happiness; To Write About Our Sexual Clumsiness, The Agonies Of Tantalus, The Depth Of Our Discouragement-what We Glimpse In Our Dreams-our Despair. To Write About The Foolish Agonies Of Anxiety, The Refreshment Of Our Strength When These Are Ended; To Write About Our Painful Search For Self, Jeopardized By A Stranger In The Post Office, A Half-seen Face In A Train Window, To Write About The Continents And Populations Of Our Dreams, About Love And Death, Good And Evil, The End Of The World.