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We Live In An Age Of Rapid Mass Media, Television, Internet. They Determine Our Tempo, Not Books.

Once You've Seen The Signs About The Barn, It Becomes Impossible To See The Barn.

I Am Not Particularly Distressed By The State Of Fiction Or The Role Of The Writer. The More Marginal, Perhaps Ultimately The More Trenchant And Observant And Finally Necessary He'll Become.

I Never Wanted To Change The World. Norman Mailer Wanted To, He Set Himself The Task Of Changing The Consciousness Of Our Age. And I Think He Came Pretty Close, In The 1960s, To Actually Managing To Do It. But Me? No, No, I Never Wanted Anything Like That. I'm Not Maileresque.

Everyone Who Does Not Live In Berlin Lives In Brooklyn Now.