The Self Cannot Be Escaped, But It

Anathematization Of The World Is Not An Adequate Response To The World.

Now It Is Necessary To Court Her, And Win Her, And Put On This Clean Dressing Gown, And Cut My Various Nails, And Drink Something That Will Kill The Millions Of Germs In My Mouth, And Say Something Flattering, And Be Witty And Bonny, And Hale And Kinky, All Just To Ease This Wrinkle In The Groin. It Seems A High Price.

I Am Never Needlessly Obscure - I Am Needfully Obscure, When I Am Obscure.

Self-criticism Sessions Were Held, But These Produced More Criticism Than Could Usefully Be Absorbed Or Accomodated.

Painters, Especially American Painters Since The Second World War, Have Been Much More Troubled, Beset By Formal Perplexity, Than American Writers. Theyve Been A Laboratory For Everybody.