My Dream, I Remember, When I Went

Syntax And Vocabulary Are Overwhelming Constraints --the Rules That Run Us. Language Is Using Us To Talk --we Think We're Using The Language, But Language Is Doing The Thinking, We're Its Slavish Agents.

I Was Stationed In Norfolk, Virginia, For A While, About Which The Less Said The Better, And Then I Was In The Mediterranean, About Which The More Said The Better.

It’s True, I Had An Extremely Delicious Life, But That Was My Life At Home, And Perhaps Because I Was Only A Child, Or For Whatever Reasons, I Found The Company Of Others, Especially Other Boys, Quite Terrifying And Upsetting.

My Dream, I Remember, When I Went To Boarding School, Was To Have A Study All My Own, A Little Nook Someplace Where Nobody Could Get At Me - Nobody, Like The Football Coach.

You Make Something. You Give Up Expressing And Start Inventing.