When You Reach A Certain Age, Suddenly

When I Was A Kid, The People Of My Generation Didn't Want To Be Writers, They Wanted To Be Rock Stars. Rock And Roll Was Not Just Entertainment, It Was The Center Of People's Lives. When I Was Young, It Was Exciting And Interesting.

I Place A High Moral Value On The Way People Behave. I Find It Repellent To Have A Lot, And To Behave With Anything Other Than Courtesy In The Old Sense Of The Word - Politeness Of The Heart, A Gentleness Of The Spirit.

I Prefer Dead Writers Because You Don't Run Into Them At Parties.

I'd Like To Decide Who Comes Here. I'd Like To Be The Admissions Director Of New York.

The Second I Learned To Read In First Grade, When I Was 5, I Preferred It To Life. And I Still Do.