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Write About The Thing That Frightens You Most.

After I Won The Pulitzer, There Was This Sense Of, 'ok, That's Enough For You. Now Go Away.' What I Wanted Was To Keep Writing, Keep Working. But No One Would Produce Anything Of Mine They Didn't Think Would Be As Big As ''night, Mother.'

When You Fight Something Long Enough, It Becomes A Center Pole Right In Your Life And You Count On It To Be There To Fight With.

There Are Things That Music Can Do That Language Could Never Do, That Painting Could Never Do, Or Sculpture. Music Is Capable Of Going Directly To The Source Of The Mystery. It Doesn't Have To Explain It. It Can Simply Celebrate It.

We Are Not Afraid To Look Under The Bed, Or To Wash The Sheets; We Know That Life Is Messy. We Know That Somebody Has To Clean It Up, And That Only If It Is Cleaned Up Can We Hope To Start Over, And Get Better.