I Can See How, Given

I Don't Mind What I Play, Really.

And May The Best Of You - For It Will Only Be The Best Of You, And Even Then Only In The Rarest And Briefest Moments - Succeed In Framing That Most Basic Of Questions, 'how Do We Live?'

People Always Say Life Is Short. I've Never Been Convinced Of That - Mine Seems To Have A Tendency To Go On And On.

All You Have Is The Writer's Imagination. You Have A Very Limited Time To Take This Imaginary Person And Bring The Details Of Their Life, As You Perceive Them, To Life. You Attempt To Do To That As Fully And As Vibrantly As You Can. It's Depressing To Read How Much You've Failed. And It's Not Even Particularly Instructive Or Necessary To Read How You Succeeded Because In The End Don't You Have To Judge That?

I Was A Very Good Baseball And Football Player, But My Father Always Told Me I Was Much More Interested In How I Looked Playing Baseball Or Football Than In Actually Playing. There's Great Truth In That.