Luck Can't Last A Lifetime Unless You

A Couple Of Years I Taught In Graduate Programs At Nyu And Columbia, In The Early Eighties.

I Much Prefer Working With Kids Whose Life Could Be Completely Upended By A Reading Of A Book Over A Weekend. You Give Them A Book To Read - They Go Home And Come Back A Changed Person. And That Is So Much More Interesting And Exciting.

If You Dedicate Your Attention To Discipline In Your Life You Become Smarter While You Are Writing Than While You Are Hanging Out With Your Pals Or In Any Other Line Of Work.

Loyalty Is Weird, It Kicks In When You Dont Expect It And The People Who Deserve Loyalty Least Seem To Get It The Most.

I Began As A Boy With Artistic Talent... As A Visual Artist... I Thought That Was What I'd Become And In My Late Teens Drifted Into Reading Serious Literature.