If You Write Beautifully, You

I Don't Believe In Reincarnation. That's A Cop-out, I Know. I Don't Really Want To Be Reincarnated.

This Is, If Not A Lifetime Process, It's Awfully Close To It. The Writer Broadens, Becomes Deeper, Becomes More Observant, Becomes More Tempered, Becomes Much Wiser Over A Period Time Passing. It Is Not Something That Is Injected Into Him By A Needle. It Is Not Something That Comes On A Wave Of Flashing, Explosive Light One Night And Say, 'huzzah! Eureka! I've Got It!' And Then Proceeds To Write The Great American Novel In Eleven Days. It Doesn't Work That Way. It's A Long, Tedious, Tough, Frustrating Process, But Never, Ever Be Put Aside By The Fact That It's Hard.

Being Like Everybody Is The Same As Being Nobody.

We're Developing A New Citizenry. One That Will Be Very Selective About Cereals And Automobiles, But Won't Be Able To Think.

I Have Compromised Down The Line. I've Disliked It Intensely In The Old Days When You Were Trying To Talk Race Relations And They Would Not Allow You To Talk About The Legitimacies Of Race Relations. In The Old Days, You Didn't Talk About Black, You Talked About Eskimo Or American Indian, And The American Indian Was Assumed Not To Be A Problem Area.