It's Not A Pretty World, Papa.' 'i've

You Have To Want To Listen To It, And Then You Can Hear It. It Has A Strange, Beautiful Texture. It Doesn't Always Talk. Sometimes-sometimes It Cries, And You Can Hear The Pain Of The World In It. It Hurts To Listen To It Then. But You Have To.

There Is In My Work A Very Strong Religious Foreground And Background. In The Later Work Some Of That Tends To Diminish, But It's Certainly Present In The Early Work.

It Is When You Are Angry That You Must Watch How You Talk.

I Think Most Serious Writers, Certainly In The Modern Period, Use Their Own Lives Or The Lives Of People Close To Them Or Lives They Have Heard About As The Raw Material For Their Creativity.

As You Grow Older You Will Discover That The Most Important Things That Will Happen To You Will Often Come As A Result Of Silly Things, As You Call Them --"ordinary Things" Is A Better Expression. That Is The Way The World Is.