America Was And Is The Immigrant's Dream.

Talent Is More Erotic When It's Wasted.

You Have To Break Through The Structure Of Your Own Stonework Habit Just To Make Yourself Listen.

How Many Beginnings Before You See The Lies In Your Excitement?

He Took Pains To Avoid Self-depreciation, Self-mockery, Ambiguity, Irony, Subtlety, Vulnerability, A Civilized World-weariness And A Tragic Sense Of History--the Very Things, He Says, That Are Most Natural To Him.

There Came A Time In Every Prolonged Effort When He Had A Moment Of Near Panic, Or 'terror In A Lonely Place', The Original Semantic Content Of The Word. The Lonely Place Was His Own Mind.