If I Retain Any Freshness Of Approach,

Sometimes I Ask Myself If Writing Novels Is Even Respectable.

Surrealism Could Not Be Made Up. It Was The Very Electricity Of The Real.

I Wondered About The Half-life Of Regret.

For Love To Last, You Had To Have Illusions Or Have No Illusions At All. But You Had To Stick To One Or The Other. It Was The Switching Back And Forth That Endangered Things.

Writing Is Both The Excursion Into And The Excursion Out Of One's Life. That Is The Queasy Paradox Of The Artistic Life. It Is The Thing That, Like Love, Removes One Both Painfully And Deliciously From The Ordinary Shape Of Existence. It Joins Another Queasy Paradox: That Life Is An Amazing, Hilarious, Blessed Gift And That It Is Also Intolerable.