In America, It Is Difficult To Be

But Perhaps More Important, As Someone Wishing To Make A Comment Or Two About Contemporary Life And Values, I Don't Have To Dig Through Libraries Or Travel To Exotic Lands To Arrive At A View Of Our Modern Situation Refracted Through The Lens Of The Preindustrial World, Or The Uncommercialized, Unfranchised, Perhaps Unsanitized-and Therefore Supposedly More "authentic"-perspective Ofthe Third World. Very Simply, This Is Because That "other" World, As Alien As If Separated By Centuries In Time, Is The One From Which I Came

To Be Compared To Jackie Robinson Is An Enormous Compliment, But I Don't Think It's Necessarily Deserved.

We All Suffer From The Preoccupation That There Exists... In The Loved One, Perfection.

I Was A Gift To My Mother. She Was A Remarkable Person. God Or Nature, Or Whatever Those Forces Are, Smiled On Her, Then Passed Me The Best Of Her.

If You Are Anxious About Death, Then You Don't Have A Sense Of The Oneness Of Things - You Feel That After Death, You Will Be No More.