Art Is One Thing That Can Go

There Is No End To The Violations Committed By Children On Children, Quietly Talking Alone.

As A Novelist, I Cannot Occupy Myself With "characters," Or At Any Rate Central Ones, Who Lack Panache, In One Or Another Sense, Who Would Be Incapable Of A Major Action Or A Major Passion, Or Who Have Not A Touch Of The Ambiguity, The Ultimate Unaccountability, The Enlarging Mistiness Of Persons "in History." History, As More Austerely I Now Know It, Is Not Romantic. But I Am.

What I Have Found Is, Anything One Keeps Hidden Should Now And Then Be Hidden Somewhere Else.

Good General-purpose Manners Nowadays May Be Said To Consist In Knowing How Much You Can Get Away With.

Don't You Understand That All Language Is Dead Currency? How They Keep On Playing Shop With It All The Same.