Dictatorships Are One-way Streets. Democracy Boasts Two-way

I Like To Compare My Method With That Of Painters Centuries Ago, Proceeding From Layer To Layer.

There Are Many Reasons For Keeping A Diary: To Make A Note Of Facts That One Considers Important; To Open One's Heart, To Give Vent To One's Feelings, To Make Confessions; From The Instinct Of Economy Which Sometimes Encourages A Writer To Make Good Use Of Even The Smallest Crumbs Of His Life, So That He May Have One More Book To Publish; Or Again From Vanity And Self- Satisfaction.

Dictatorships Are One-way Streets. Democracy Boasts Two-way Traffic.

Because The World To-day Is So Constructed That No One Can Do What He Would Like To Do, And He Is Forced, Instead, To Do What Others Wish Him To Do. Because The Question Of Money Always Intrudes—into What We Do, Into What We Are, Into What We Wish To Become, Into Our Work, Into Our Highest Aspirations, Even Into Our Relations With The People We Love!

Good Writers Are Monotonous, Like Good Composers. They Keep Trying To Perfect The One Problem They Were Born To Understand.