If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
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The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
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A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.
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Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.
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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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People never notice anything.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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