I Would Never Write In Response To

How Many Beginnings Before You See The Lies In Your Excitement?

There Is A World Inside The World.

A Writer Decides To Follow Some Ideas And Not Others For Reasons That Aren't Always Clear To Him. It's Often A Matter Of Intuition.

The Writer Is The Person Who Stands Outside Society, Independent Of Affiliation And Independent Of Influence.

In This Century The Writer Has Carried On A Conversation With Madness. We Might Almost Say Of The Twentieth-century Writer That He Aspires To Madness. Some Have Made It, Of Course, And They Hold Special Places In Our Regard. To A Writer, Madness Is A Final Distillation Of Self, A Final Editing Down. It's The Drowning Out Of False Voices.