Whatever Extra There Is In Me At

My Grief Is That The Publishing World, The Book Writing World Is An Extraordinary Shoddy, Dirty, Dingy World.

There Are Two Ways Of Talking. One Is The Easy Way, Where You Talk Lightly, And The Other One Is The Considered Way. The Considered Way Is What I Have Put My Name To.

To Read A Newspaper For The First Time Is Like Coming Into A Film That Has Been On For An Hour. Newspapers Are Like Serials. To Understand Them You Have To Take Knowledge To Them; The Knowledge That Serves Best Is The Knowledge Provided By The Newspaper Itself.

To This Day, If You Ask Me How I Became A Writer, I Cannot Give You An Answer. To This Day, If You Ask Me How A Book Is Written, I Cannot Answer. For Long Periods, If I Didn't Know That Somehow In The Past I Had Written A Book, I Would Have Given Up.

Argentine Political Life Is Like The Life Of An Ant Community Or An African Forest Tribe: Full Of Events, Full Of Crisis And Deaths, But Life Is Always Cyclical, And The Year Ends As It Begins.