In The Absence Of A

My Own Fantasies Of What Life Would Be Like At 24 Tended To The More Spectacular.

I Have Not Been The Witness I Wanted To Be.

As A Writer, Even As A Child, Long Before What I Wrote Began To Be Published, I Developed A Sense That Meaning Itself Was Resident In The Rhythms Of Words And Sentences And Paragraphs...the Way I Write Is Who I Am, Or Have Become.

Let Me Just Be In The Ground. Let Me Just Be In The Ground And Go To Sleep.

Throw Yourself Into The Convulsions Of The World. I'm Not Telling You To Make The World Better, Because I Don't Believe Progress Is Necessarily Part Of The Package. I'm Just Telling You To Live In It, To Look At It, To Witness It. Try And Get It. Seize The Moment.