When Faced With Something I Fear, I

Writing Is Still My Main Career, But I Would Love, For Instance, To Serve In The New York State Assembly.

From Long Familiarity, We Know What Honor Is. It Is What Enables The Individual To Do Right In The Face Of Complacency And Cowardice. It Is What Enables The Soldier To Die Alone, The Political Prisoner To Resist, The Singer To Sing Her Song, Hardly Appreciated, On A Side Street.

I Believe That Israel Is Very Likely Not To Survive, It's Not Going To Last Forever, And Now There's Nothing That Someone Like Me Can Do About It, In That It's A Threat Of Nuclear Or Biological Or Chemical Attack.

In Daily Life Language Is Important, If Not In Itself, Then As A Symptom.

I Made A Boy's Mistake, Common Enough, Of Thinking That Real Life Was Knowing Many Things And Many People, Living Dangerously In Faraway Places, Crossing The Sea, Or Starting A Power Company On The Columbia River, A Steamship Line In Bolivia.