My Undertaking Is Not Difficult,

That One Individual Should Awaken In Another Memories That Belong To Still A Third Is An Obvious Paradox.

When Writers Die They Become Books, Which Is, After All, Not Too Bad An Incarnation.

As To My Writing Short Pieces, There Are Two Reasons I Can Give You. The First Is My Invincible Laziness. The Second Is That I've Always Been Fond Of Short Stories, And It Always Took Me Some Trouble To Get Through A Novel.

I Think Most People Are More Important Than Their Opinions.

I Am Interested In The Past. Perhaps One Of The Reasons Is We Cannot Make, Cannot Change The Past. I Mean You Can Hardly Unmake The Present. But The Past After All Is Merely To Say A Memory, A Dream. You Know My Own Past Seems Continually Changed When I Am Remembering It, Or Reading Things That Are Interesting To Me.