I Think Young People Ought To Seek

I Would Suppose I Learned How To Write When I Was Very Young Indeed. When I Read A Child's Book About The Trojan War And Decided That The Greeks Were Really A Bunch Of Frauds With Their Tricky Horses And The Terrible Things They Did, Stealing One Another's Wives, And So On, So At That Very Early Age, I Re-wrote The Ending Of The Iliad So That The Trojans Won. And Boy, Achilles And Ajax Got What They Wanted, Believe Me. And Thereafter, At Frequent Intervals, I Would Write Something. It Was Really Quite Extraordinary. Never Of Very High Merit, But The Daringness Of It Was.

I Think Young People Ought To Seek The Experience That Is Going To Knock Them Off Center.

Rampaging Horsemen Can Conquer; Only The City Can Civilize.

I Think Young People Ought To Seek That Differential Experience That Is Going To Knock Them Off Dead Center. I Was A Typical American School Boy. I Happened To Get Straight A's And Be Pretty Good In Sports. But I Had No Great Vision Of What I Could Be. And I Never Had Any Yearning.

Character Consists Of What You Do On The Third And Fourth Tries.