Most Writers Need A Wound,

He Didn't Want To Please His Readers. He Wanted To Stretch Them Until They Twanged.

Don't Dumb Down; Always Write For Your Top Five Percent Of Readers.

Every Writer Hopes Or Boldly Assumes That His Life Is In Some Sense Exemplary, That The Particular Will Turn Out To Be Universal.

Is There Any Good Reason Why We Cannot Extend Our Multi-cultural Generosity To Include Another Dimension? That Of Time. The Past, Too, Is Another Country. Its Ghosts May Look Strange And Frightening And Slightly Misshapen In Body And Mind, But All The More Reason Then, To Welcome Them To Our Shores.

He Was In A Terrible State- That Of Consciousness.