Van Morrison Remains A Singer

The Sixties Are Most Generously Described As A Time When People Took Part - When They Stepped Out Of Themselves And Acted In Public, As People Who Didn't Know What Would Happen Next, But Who Were Sure That Acts Of True Risk And Fear Would Produce Something Different From What They Had Been Raised To Take For Granted.

Farber Had A Huge Effect On Me As A Writer. I Don't Mean I Write Like Him. Farber Is, First Of All, A Great Stylist, A Great Writer. Anyone Can Read Manny Farber's Film Criticism, Whether That Person Is A Novelist, A Poet, Another Critic, A Historian, And Learn A Lot About Writing By Reading Him.

Every Youth Movement Presents Itself As A Loan To The Future, And Tries To Call In Its Lien In Advance, But When There Is No Future All Loans Are Canceled.

What Always Attracted Me To [bob] Dylan, And What Has Sustained Me As A Dylan Listener, Or Has Always Continued To Surprise Me, Is His Voice, The Way He Sings, The Way He Wraps His Voice Around Certain Words, The Way He Backs Off From Melodic Moments, The Way He Moves Forward To Grab Something In A Song That, Were Anybody Else Performing It, They Would Have No Idea It Was Even There.

I Want Another Idea, Another Project, But You Can't Make Them Up. They Show Up.