Being Called A 'bad Citizen'

In This Century The Writer Has Carried On A Conversation With Madness. We Might Almost Say Of The Twentieth-century Writer That He Aspires To Madness. Some Have Made It, Of Course, And They Hold Special Places In Our Regard. To A Writer, Madness Is A Final Distillation Of Self, A Final Editing Down. It's The Drowning Out Of False Voices.

When You Try To Unravel Something You've Written, You Belittle It In A Way. It Was Created As A Mystery.

In Fiction, I Tend To Write Fairly Realistic Dialogue-not Always, And It Tends To Vary From Book To Book. But In Many Books, There Is A Colloquialism Of Address. The Characters Will Speak In A Quite Idiosyncratic Way Sometimes.

Somehow Pictures Always Lead To People As Masses. Books Belong To Individuals.

There's Never A Dearth Of Reasons To Shoot At The President.