You Make Something. You Give

There Are Many Things I’ve Written That I Didn’t Really Understand Until A Long Time Later.

You Make Something. You Give Up Expressing And Start Inventing.

I Think Situations Are More Important Than Plot And Character.

I Was Stationed In Norfolk, Virginia, For A While, About Which The Less Said The Better, And Then I Was In The Mediterranean, About Which The More Said The Better.

Syntax And Vocabulary Are Overwhelming Constraints --the Rules That Run Us. Language Is Using Us To Talk --we Think We're Using The Language, But Language Is Doing The Thinking, We're Its Slavish Agents.