I'm A Dilettante By Temperament.

Your Memories Become Fantasies If They Are Not Shared, And Your Life In All Its Triviality Becomes A Legend.

I Suppose I'm Interested In Sorrow, Which Is Very Different From Depression Or Despair. Sorrow Is Continuous With The World; It Allows For Creativity.

For A Fight To Be Productive, Or At Least Relevant, Writers Should Fight Over Different Demands They Put Upon Writing (as An Individual, Private Act) And Literature (a Network Of Relations In Which We Are All Involved).

I Did Not Intend To Stay; I Had No Experience In The United States - I May Have Been Here Less Than 24 Hours - But I Knew I Would Never Get Inside There. And 'there' Not Being America Necessarily, But That Harmonious Mode Of Living That Some People Are Lucky Enough To Have In This Country.

If You Can't Go Home, There Is Nowhere To Go, And Nowhere Is The Biggest Place In The World-indeed, Nowhere Is The World.