I Was Happy Because I Made Enough

Our Dreams Make Us Large.

Everybody Was Wary. This Was A Time When Communists Marched Through The Streets, Waving Flags And Shouting. The Unions Did The Same Thing So You Began To Associate Them.

You Had To Grow Up Sometime. The Fellows Who Grew Early, They Were In Jeopardy. They Became The Cops And The Crooks, And The Crooks Became The Gangsters. The Crooks Became The Al Capones.

I Feel That My Characters All Have Some Part Of My Character. I Feel That They're All Me In Some Way, Certainly Not In Individuality, But They All Bear Elements Of What I Feel.

The Average Politician Was Crooked. That Was My Ambition, To Be A Crooked Politician. I'd See Them In These Restaurants, And They'd All Hold These Conferences. I'd See Politicians Who Were Supposed To Be On Opposite Sides Of Issues All Together At One Table.