For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
“I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.”
“When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.”