If You Don't Hear His Voice So

Reader, I Am Myself The Subject Of My Book; You Would Be Unreasonable To Spend Your Leisure On So Frivolous And So Vain A Matter.

As Long As A Man Stays Alive He Can't Tell What Chances Will Pop Up Next. But A Dead Man Signs No Checks.

First Drafts Are For Learning What Your Novel Or Story Is About. Revision Is Working With That Knowledge To Enlarge And Enhance An Idea, To Re-form It.... The First Draft Of A Book Is The Most Uncertain-where You Need Guts, The Ability To Accept The Imperfect Until It Is Better.

A Man Is An Island In The Only Sense That Matters, Not An Easy Way To Be. We Live In Mystery, A Cosmos Of Separate Lonely Bodies, Men, Insects, Stars. It Is All Loneliness And Men Know It Best.

Ithink Isaid'all Menare Jews Excepttheydon't Know It.'i Doubt I Expected Anyone To Take The Statement Literally. But I Think It's An Understandable Statement And A Metaphoric Way Of Indicating How History, Sooner Or Later, Treats All Men.