People Who Try To Predict The Future

I Get Absolutely Ruthless In My Own Way About Not Doing Anything Else When I Am Trying To Concentrate On Writing A Book. I Have To Stick To It And Concentrate.

Neighborhoods Built Up All At Once Change Little Physically Over The Years As A Rule...[residents] Regret That The Neighborhood Has Changed. Yet The Fact Is, Physically It Has Changed Remarkably Little. People's Feelings About It, Rather, Have Changed. The Neighborhood Shows A Strange Inability To Update Itself, Enliven Itself, Repair Itself, Or To Be Sought After, Out Of Choice, By A New Generation. It Is Dead. Actually It Was Dead From Birth, But Nobody Noticed This Much Until The Corpse Began To Smell.

It Is Immoral For Powerless People To Accept This Powerlessness. They May Not Succeed In Getting Power But They Can Fight For It, And If Enough Fight For It, It Makes It Very Difficult For The People With The Big Sticks.

Maybe Part Of My Animus Against The English Is The Way They Have Always Treated The Irish And They Way They Still Think About The Irish.

The Japanese Are Virtuosos. They Make Just The Little Accent That Makes All The Difference. So Much There Is So Beautiful - Just A Shop Window Display Is A Work Of Art. Just The Way They Make All Kinds Of Things Out Of Bamboo That Are So Ingenious. Just The Way This Little Bamboo Drain Or Latch Is So Beautiful. The Masonry Around The Streams To Hold The Bank Are Beautiful - And Not All One Kind And Not Just Cement.