Writing Has To Support Itself.

This Is Unusual For Me. I Have Given Readings And Not Lectures. I Have Told People Who Ask For Lectures That I Have No Lecture To Give. And That Is True.

All The Things That Were Read To Me By My Father Were Stories About Things Becoming All Right.

If A Writer Doesn't Generate Hostility, He Is Dead.

I Know My Father And My Mother, But Beyond That I Cannot Go. My Ancestry Is Blurred.

We Cannot Understand All The Traits We Have Inherited. Sometimes We Can Be Strangers To Ourselves.