Autumn Arrives In Early Morning,

Everything Is Very Quiet, The Streets Are Never Crowded, And The People One Dislikes Are Out Of Town.

Fashion Seems To Exist For An Abstract Person Who Is Not You Or Me.

With No Banal Reassuring Grown-ups Present, With Grown-up Intervention Taken Away, There Is No Limit To The Terror Strange Children Feel Of Each Other, A Terror Life Obscures But Never Ceases To Justify. There Is No End To The Violations Committed By Children On Children, Quietly Talking Alone.

Characters Are Not Created By Writers. They Pre-exist And Have To Be Found.

Bring All Your Intelligence To Bear On Your Beginning.