You Can No More Make

I Wouldn't Mind Writing A Long Book Which Is Going To Occupy Me For The Rest Of My Life.

We Leave A Stain, We Leave A Trail, We Leave Our Imprint. Impurity, Cruelty, Abuse, Error, Excrement, Semen - There’s No Other Way To Be Here. Nothing To Do With Disobedience. Nothing To Do With Grace Or Salvation Or Redemption. It’s In Everyone. Indwelling. Inherent. Defining. The Stain That Is There Before Its Mark.

Fear Presides Over These Memories, A Perpetual Fear.of Course No Childhood Is Without Its Terrors, Yet I Wonder If I Would Have Been A Less Frightened Boy If Lindbergh Hadn't Been President Or If I Hadn't Been The Offspring Of Jews.

I Don't Wish To Be A Slave Any Longer To The Stringent Exigencies Of Literature.

I'm An Obama Supporter. And If You're An Obama Supporter That Means You Had A Hard Time During The Bush Years.