Partly I Resented Being Perceived As Weak

If It Weren't For The Unconventionality Of My Desires, My Mind Might Never Have Been Forced To Reckon With My Body.

If There Was Ever A Bigger Pansy Than My Father, It Was Marcel Proust.

I Still Found Literary Criticism To Be A Suspect Activity

Basically, My Work Is Play. It Never Actually Feels That Way - I'm Always Aiming To Attain That State. But I Get To Do For A Living What I Did As A Child For Fun, And That's Pretty Cool.

Mostly It Was Mad Magazine. And I Did Read A Lot Of - I Had A Subscription When I Was Little, But I Also Had Access To Some Old Collections, The Little Paperbacks Of The Really Good Stuff.