In The U.s., Oddly, We Have Images

At Princeton I Wrote My Junior Paper On Virginia Woolf, And For My Senior Thesis I Wrote On Samuel Beckett. I Wrote Some About "between The Acts" And "mrs. Dalloway'' But Mostly About "to The Lighthouse." With Beckett I Focused, Perversely, On His Novels, "molloy," "malone Dies," And "the Unnamable." That's When I Decided I Should Never Write Again.

The Critical Mind Is The Creative Mind.

Willie Mays Was The Best Ever. When I Was In College I Once Made A Catch Like The One Mays Made Over His Head. Sometimes When I'm Lying In Bed At Night I Think About It. It Still Makes Me Warm.

I'm Half Jewish, Half Scottish. It's Hard For Me To Buy Anything.

I Understand The Self-loathing And The Resentment, And The Discipline That It Takes To Sit Down In Front Of A Typewriter Or Computer Every Single Day, Whether It's Going Well Or Not Going Well.