We Should Always Look Back

A Writer Helps To Show You Things You Knew But Didn't Know You Knew.

We Should Always Look Back On Our Own Past With A Sort Of Contempt, As Long As The Tenderness Is There - But Please Let Some Of The Contempt Be There.

Some Of The Words And Symbols And Images From Childhood Will Continually Be Part And Parcel Of My Personality.

I Also Believe In Cigarettes, Cholesterol, Alcohol, Carbon Monoxide, Masturbation, The Arts Council, Nuclear Weapons, The Daily Telegraph, And Not Properly Labeling Fatal Poisons, But Above All Else, Most Of All, I Believe In The One Thing That Can Come Out Of People's Mouths: Vomit.

The More My Work Improves Or Broadens Or Widens, The More Surely I Tame Myself.