The Avocation Of Assessing The Failures Of

... Chicago Divided Your Heart. Leaving You Loving The Joint For Keeps. Yet Knowing It Never Can Love You.

And Money Can't Buy Everything. For Example: Poverty.

Thinking Of Poe, Thinking Of Mark Twain And Vachel Lindsay, Thinking Of Jack London And Tom Wolfe, One Begins To Feel There Is Almost No Way Of Becoming A Creative Writer In America Without Being A Loser.

The Hard Necessity Of Bringing The Judge On The Bench Down Into The Dock Has Been The Peculiar Responsibility Of The Writer In All Ages Of Man.

Yet Once You've Come To Be Part Of This Particular Patch, You'll Never Love Another. Like Loving A Woman With A Broken Nose, You May Well Find Lovelier Lovelies. But Never A Lovely So Real.