My Style As A Human Being Is

It Is Hard Enough To Make A Plan For How You Are Going To Spend An Evening With Somebody Else. So To Make A Plan For How You Are Going To Behave In 25 Years Seems Based On A View Of Life That Is Incomprehensible To Me.

I Do Things, And Other People Laugh At Them. I Rarely Know What The Joke Is Supposed To Be Or Why They're Laughing.

I Grew Up In A Very Polite Family, And I Suppose My Parents Were Both Very Polite, And From The Time I Was A Young Boy, I Suspected That There Were Passions Seething Underneath And Not Being Mentioned, And That Was Something That Came To Preoccupy Me. Somehow I Had Some Drive To Write Down What People Might Really Be Thinking.

I'm Not Proud To Be Me, I'm Not Excited To Be Me, But I Find That I Am Me, And Like Most Other Individuals, I Send Out Little Signals; I Tell Everyone Else How Everything Looks From Where I Am.

I Think The Whole System Of Education Would Change If I Were In Charge And Had The Ability To Make Changes. I Don't Think I Would Keep Princeton Exactly Being Princeton.