I've Never Done Anything Half-heartedly. It's The

I Feel That Man Can Transcend Himself To A Point Where He Can Accomplish Greater Things Than He Thinks.

I Never Had Stock Endings. I Didn't Believe In Stock Endings. To Make The [reader] Happy Was Not My Objective, But To Make The [reader] Say, "yeah, That's What Would Happen" - That Was My Objective.

Of Course, Mothers Were Very Conventional, Everything Was Very Conventional. You Had To Have Approval.

The Artist Is The Lowest Form Of Life On The Rung Of The Ladder. The Publishers Are Usually Businessmen Who Deal With Businessmen. They Deal With Promotional People. They Deal With Financial People. They Deal With Accountants. They Deal With People Who Work On Higher Levels. They Deal With Tax People, But Have Absolutely No Interest In Artists, In Individual Artists, Especially Very Young Artists.

A Climb-out Fight Is Where You Climb A Building. You Climb Fire Escapes. You Climb To The Top Of The Building. You Fight On The Roof, And You Fight All The Way Down Again.