The Balls Do Not Make

The Hopeless Hope Is One Of The Early Harbingers Of Spring, Bespeaking An Innocent Belief That The World Might Right Its Wrongs And Reverse Its Curses Simply Because The Trees Are Coming Into Leaf.

I Actually Didn't Listen To The Beatles Song 'nowhere Man' When I Was Writing My Book Of The Same Name. What I Listened To A Lot Was 'abbey Road.' Its Disjointedness And Its Readiness To Confuse Only To Delight Were Inspiring To Me.

Rilke Said That Art Can Come Only Out Of Inner Necessity. I Write Because I Must. Or Because I Cannot Not Write.

What You Demand From Storytelling Is A Moral - Even Political - Import. I Tend To Shun That Didactic Aspect.

When I Was Young, I Was All About Personal Sovereignty And That Junk, Because There Was No Privacy And The Available Ideologies Were Collective, Both Socialism/communism And Nationalism.