God May Want You To Be The

To Give Without Any Reward, Or Any Notice, Has A Special Quality Of Its Own.

In General, I Feel, Or I Have Come To Feel, That The Richest Writing Comes Not From The People Who Dedicate Themselves To Writing Alone. I Know This Is Contradicted Again And Again But I Continue To Feel It. They Don't, Of Course, Write As Much, Or As Fast, But I Think It Is Riper And More Satisfying When It Does Come. One Of The Difficulties Of Writing Or Doing Any Kind Of Creative Work In America Seems To Me To Be That We Put Such Stress On Production And Material Results. We Put A Time Pressure And A Mass Pressure On Creative Work Which Are Meaningless And Infantile In That Field.

But I Want First Of All- In Fact, As An End To These Other Desires- To Be At Peace With Myself.

One Must Lose One's Life To Find It.

Cut Asparagus At Night - In Desperation. When One Is Very Tired One Always Does One More Thing.