My Eyes Close. I Am

I Sometimes Seem To Myself To Wander Around The World Merely Accumulating Material For Future Nostalgias.

Fiction Basically Is A Form Of Gossip Where You Want To Enter Other People's Lives, The Lives Of People You Don't Know, And You Want To Know What's Going To Happen To Them.

I Don't Pick And Choose Subjects Or Settings; They Pick And Choose Me.

Everyone Sort Of Sees His Own Life And Times As Being Ephemeral. One Thinks That Everything Good Or Important That Happened, Happened In The Past. But I Think That Seeing Scenes That You Are Used To, But With The Heightening Effects Of Poetry, Perhaps Makes You Value Your Life And Times More Than You Might Otherwise Do.

Think Of Many Things. Never Place Your Happiness In One Person's Power. Be Just To Yourself.