I Am Telling You What I Know—words

In The Twentieth Century One Of The Most Personal Relationships To Have Developed Is That Of The Person And The State. It's Become A Fact Of Life That Governments Have Become Very Intimate With People, Most Always To Their Detriment.

I Thought I Would Lose, So I Didn't Prepare A Speech.

I've Always Felt, As A Writer, That Radicals Are Fascinating Because They're Relations, They Have A Place In The American Family. They're The Relatives Everyone Wishes Would Go Away. They're The Embarrassments To Decorum And Good Taste.

A New Reader Shouldn't Be Able To Find You In Your Work, Though Someone Who's Read More May Begin To.

There Are Moments When I Cannot Bear This Unremitting Consciousness. It Knows Only Itself. Awake, I Am In A Continuum With My Dreams. I Feel My Typewriters, My Table, My Chair To Have That Assurance Of A Solid World, Where Things Take Up Space, Where Is Not The Endless Emptiness Of Insubstantial Thought That Leads To Nowhere But Itself. My Memories Pale As I Prevail Upon Them Again And Again. They Become More And More Ghostly. I Fear Nothing So Much As Losing Them Altogether And Having Only My Blank Endless Mind To Live In.