I don't think you can be a writer, or maybe even a man, until you recognize your own dreadful lack of importance. The world is not going to go into complete mourning all the way to China when we die. It's humbling, and it's also intensified when you grow old...


Washington Post, December 19, 1993[washingtonpost.com]


I don't think you can be a writer, or maybe even a man, until you recognize your own dreadful lack of importance. The world is not going to go into...

I don't think you can be a writer, or maybe even a man, until you recognize your own dreadful lack of importance. The world is not going to go into...

I don't think you can be a writer, or maybe even a man, until you recognize your own dreadful lack of importance. The world is not going to go into...

I don't think you can be a writer, or maybe even a man, until you recognize your own dreadful lack of importance. The world is not going to go into...