We Plan, We Toil, We Suffer -

If You Are A Genius, You'll Make Your Own Rules, But If Not - And The Odds Are Against It - Go To Your Desk No Matter What Your Mood, Face The Icy Challenge Of The Paper - Write.

California, That Advance Post Of Our Civilization, With Its Huge Aircraft Factories, Tv And Film Studios, Automobile Way Of Life... Its Flavourless Cosmopolitanism, Its Charlatan Philosophies And Religions, Its Lack Of Anything Old And Well-tried Rooted In Tradition And Character.

To Put Failure Behind You, Face Up To It.

A Novelist Who Writes Nothing For 10 Years Finds His Reputation Rising. Because I Keep On Producing Books They Say There Must Be Something Wrong With This Fellow.

Like Its Politicians And Its Wars, Society Has The Teenagers It Deserves.