I'm Really A Library Man, Or Second-hand

Never Trade A Secret, You'll Always Get The Short End Of The Bargain.

The Monsters Of Our Childhood Do Not Fade Away, Neither Are They Ever Wholly Monstrous. But Neither, In My Experience, Do We Ever Reach A Plane Of Detachment Regarding Our Parents, However Wise And Old We May Become. To Pretend Otherwise Is To Cheat.

Remember Graham Green's Dictum That Childhood Is The Bank Balance Of The Writer? I Think That All Writers Feel Alienated. Most Of Us Go Back To An Alienated Childhood In Some Way Or Another. I Know That I Do.

Let's All Pretend To Be Someone Else, And Then Perhaps We'll Find Out Who We Are.

I Happen To Write By Hand. I Don't Even Type.