Poetry Is The Key To The Hieroglyphics

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

The Orthodoxy Of America Is As Rigid As That Of Soviet Russia. There Is One Point Of View Allowed. If You Start A Conversation From Another Point Of View, The Words Dry In Your Mouth.

One Of The Things I Find About Getting Older Is That I Seem To Get Louder, More Voluble; That I Constantly Have To Walk Around Repressing My Vitality.

When You Get Older, Then You Feel Death Not At The End Of The Road, But Death All Around You, In Everything. Life Is Saturated With Death. I Feel Death Everywhere.

Are We Simply Waving Farewell To The Days When Some Of The Most Interesting Thinking In Europe And America Came To Us From Our Fiction Film-makers? Bbc2, Which Once Introduced And Showed Great Films, Now Shows None.