I Think Nobody Owns The Land Until

Marriage Is Memory, Marriage Is Time.

The Impulse To Write Things Down Is A Peculiarly Compulsive One, Inexplicable To Those Who Do Not Share It, Useful Only Accidentally, Only Secondarily, In The Way That Any Compulsion Tries To Justify Itself. I Suppose That It Begins Or Does Not Begin In The Cradle.

Keepers Of Private Notebooks Are A Different Breed Altogether, Lonely And Resistant Rearrangers Of Things, Anxious Malcontents, Children Afflicted Apparently At Birth With Some Presentiment Of Loss.

It's Just A Deep Pleasure To Read Something You've Written Yourself - If And When You Like It.

The Minute You Start Putting Words On Paper You're Eliminating Possibilities.