Loving Someone Is A Loss Of Freedom

I Have Forgotten My Rave Reviews And Memorized My Vicious Ones - Like Most Writers.

Women Who Bear Children Before They Establish Serious Habits Of Work, May Never Establish Them At All.

This Is The Sad Bed Of Chosen Chastity Because You Are Miles And Mountains Away.

I Myself Hate That Old Hemingwayesque Paradigm Of The Writer As Prizefighter And I Have Tried Hard To Create An Alternate One For Myself. When Anne Sexton Admonished Me, "we Are All Writing God's Poem," I Took It To Mean There Should Be No Competition Between Writers Because We Are All Involved In A Common Project, A Common Prayer. But To Gore's And Norman's Generation, Particularly Those Male Writers Who Served In The Second World War, The Prizefighter Paradigm Remains.

I See That The Greatest Thing About Getting Older Is How Your Judgment Changes And How You Come To Understand The Cycles Of Life. And You Keep Having These Amazing Flashes Of Understanding.