The Artist's Life Nourishes Itself On The

I Want To Be Able To Sleep In An Open Field, To Travel West, To Walk Freely At Night.

I Knew Chemistry Would Be Worse, Because I'd Seen A Big Card Of The Ninety-odd Elements Hung Up In The Chemistry Lab, And All The Perfectly Good Words Like Gold And Silver And Cobalt And Aluminum Were Shortened To Ugly Abbreviations With Different Decimal Numbers After Them.

So Much Working, Reading, Thinking, Living To Do! A Lifetime Is Not Long Enough.

And I Identify Too Closely With My Reading, With My Writing.

But Everybody Has Exactly The Same Smiling Frightened Face, With The Look That Says: "i'm Important. If You Only Get To Know Me, You Will See How Important I Am. Look Into My Eyes. Kiss Me, And You Will See How Important I Am.