I Think The Virtue I Prize Above

Do I Do As False Prophets Do And Puff Air Into Simulacra? Am I A Sorcerer--like Macbeth's Witches--mixing Truth And Lies In Incandescent Shapes? Or Am I A Kind Of Very Minor Scribe Of A Prophetic Book--telling Such Truth As In Me Lies, With Aid Of Such Fiction As I Acknowledge Mine, As Prospero Acknowledged Caliban.

I Don't Understand Why, In My Work, Writing Is Always So Dangerous. It's Very Destructive. People Who Write Books Are Destroyers.

I'm More Interested In Books Than People, And I Always Expect Everybody Else To Be, But They're Not.

Harm Can Come About Without Will Or Action. But Will And Action Can Avert Harm.

When I Was A Child - In Wartime, Pre-television - Books Were My Life.