The Dead Are Dead But

When This Is Over, I'm Not Going To Be The Same Guy. I Am Going To Live As If I Were A Great Man.

No Man Leaves Where He Is And Seeks A Distant Place Unless He Is In Some Respect A Failure.

Although Most Of Us Know Vincent Van Gogh In Arles And Paul Gauguin In Tahiti As If They Were Neighbors -- Somewhat Disreputable But Endlessly Fascinating -- None Of Us Can Name Two French Generals Or Department Store Owners Of That Period. I Take Enormous Pride In Considering Myself An Artist, One Of The Necessaries.

I Never Wrote Anything That Was Published Until I Was Forty.

About A Billion Years Ago, Long Before The Continents Had Separated To Define The Ancient Oceans, Or Their Own Outlines Had Been Determined, A Small Protuberance Jutted Out From The Northwest Corner Of What Would Later Become North America.