I Never Set Out To Write Books

Oh, I Adored Mickey Mouse When I Was A Child. He Was The Emblem Of Happiness And Funniness. You Went To The Movies Then, You Saw Two Movies And A Short. When Mickey Mouse Came On The Screen And There Was His Big Head, My Sister Said She Had To Hold Onto Me. I Went Berserk.

We're Animals. We're Violent.

I'm Writing A Poem Right Now About A Nose. I've Always Wanted To Write A Poem About A Nose. But It's A Ludicrous Subject. That's Why, When I Was Younger, I Was Afraid Of [writing] Something That Didn't Make A Lot Of Sense. But Now I'm Not. I Have Nothing To Worry About. It Doesn't Matter.

I Had Been Reading A Fabulous Book [the Man Verdi, By Frank Walker] About [giuseppe] Verdi, Whom I Adore.

I Did Not Know How To Paint A Mural. I Did Not Know How To Prepare The Surface. There Was Nobody From The Renaissance Around Who Could Advise Me, And I Did The Best I Could.