We Live In An Age In Which

American Society [...] Not Only Sanctions Gross And Unfair Relations Among Men, But It Encourages Them. Now, Can That Be Denied? No. Rivalry, Competition, Envy, Jealousy, All That Is Malignant In Human Character Is Nourished By The System. Possession, Money, Property--on Such Corrupt Standards As These Do You People Measure Happiness And Success.

To Read A Novel Requires A Certain Kind Of Concentration, Focus, Devotion To The Reading. If You Read A Novel In More Than Two Weeks, You Don't Read The Novel Really.

You Don't Want To Repeat Yourself For One. You Don't Want To Fall Into The Clichés For Another. And You Don't Want To Be Licentious Really. You Want To Be Descriptive, If You Can Be. And You're Not Setting Out To Arouse Anybody.

Suicide Is The Role You Write For Yourself. You Inhabit It And You Enact It. All Carefully Staged -- Where They Will Find You And How They Will Find You. But One Performance Only.

A Jewish Man With His Parents Alive Is Half The Time A Helpless Infant!