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“The writer competes with the saint for being around the most people, the most situations that are the opposite of what he should be around. That is, the saint-in-the-making because once he or she is a saint they have moved to the appropriate crowd.”
“So, just grin and bear it?”
“Don’t take it seriously and develop criteria of who helps and how much.”
“The people to avoid are those who think they’ve pinned you down and then act and believe that they will always pin you down. Avoid these as you would hungry rats.”
“I always tried to go through life without judgment, full of manifestation.”
“Ah well, human nature is the still nasty thing it was thousands of years ago, especially when it feels it has been deprived of some power.”
“I wrote and thought. I studied at times. I thought. This is what I did. This was who I was. The stupid pressures of those who didn’t recognize this fact were a waste of time. They wallowed in a pathetic refusal of their own lives and wanted victims to swim the same awful waters. Or, they were dense without an ounce of imagination and believed that their precious lives were the standard. The standard of what? Of a rather low, half-addicted, half-superstitious life that had no joy to it? Perhaps. Lives without truth and beauty are corpse like. And the corpse learns the right way of saying a few things that will keep the scent off his rot. Ok, that’s understandable. They wanted those who they could plant in their own graveyards to claim the howls of their dead belonged to them.”
“It was your own damn fault. You and your stupid short-cuts. ‘Be efficient,’ that was a clarion call when you were a young man. ‘Cut through the non-essentials as fast as possible.’ You again.
“I had no interest in the lives I saw around me. They were not bad lives but they were not carrying the values I wanted to carry and they didn’t have the burdens I had to carry.”
“Well, it’s better to learn this lesson sooner than later but as long as you learn it.”
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