The Responsibility Of A Writer Is To

What Passes For Identity In America Is A Series Of Myths About One's Heroic Ancestors. It's Astounding To Me, For Example, That So Many People Really Appear To Believe That The Country Was Founded By A Band Of Heroes Who Wanted To Be Free. That Happens Not To Be True. What Happened Was That Some People Left Europe Because They Couldn't Stay There Any Longer And Had To Go Somewhere Else To Make It. That's All. They Were Hungry, They Were Poor, They Were Convicts. Those Who Were Making It In England, For Example, Did Not Get On The Mayflower. That's How The Country Was Settled.

Perhaps Home Is Not A Place But Simply An Irrevocable Condition.

I Think Americans Are Terrified Of Feeling Anything. I Never Met A People More Infantile In My Life.

Employment Is My Right My Destiny.

One Can Only Face In Others What One Can Face In Oneself.