The Damned Book I Am Writing Is

I Would, If I Could, Always Feed To Music. The Singularly Graceless Action Of Thus Filling One's Body With Roots And Dead Animals And Powdered Grain Is Given Some Significance Then. One Can Perform As A Ritual What One Is Shamed To Do As A Utilitarian Action.

[on Golf:] One Of The Most Distressing Defects Of Civilization.

Why, Why, When One Writes, Does A Sort Of Shackle Bind One's Imagination? I Become Conscious Of A Deadening Mediocrity, Perhaps A Form Of Mental Cowardice, And I Long To Break Free, To Let My Imagination Take Wings. It Doesn't - Yet.

Question Everyone In Authority, And See That You Get Sensible Answers To Your Questions ... Questioning Does Not Mean The End Of Loving, And Loving Does Not Mean The Abnegation Of Intelligence. Vow As Much Love To Your Country As You Like ... But, I Implore You, Do Not Forget To Question.

I Like A Bit Of Color Myself, I Must Say. At My Time Of Life, If You Wear Nothing But Black, People Might Think You Were Too Mean To Change Frocks Between Funerals.