The United States Particularly Abandoned Liberia After

And Out Of A Desire Essentially To Imitate What I Was Reading, I Began To Write, Like A Clever Monkey.

It's Hard To Spend Years At A Time Working In Total Solitude With No Reality-check.

A Couple Of Years I Taught In Graduate Programs At Nyu And Columbia, In The Early Eighties.

Driving Home, It's All I Can Do To Keep From Crying. Time's Come, Time's Gone, Time's Never Returning, I Say To Myself. What's Here In Front Of Me Is All I've Got, I Decide, And As I Drive My Car Through The Blowing Snow It Doesn't Seem Like Much, Except For The Kindness That I've Just Exchanged With An Old Lady, So I Concentrate On That.

Loyalty Is Weird, It Kicks In When You Dont Expect It And The People Who Deserve Loyalty Least Seem To Get It The Most.