All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
“The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.”
“I wouldn't call him a slave. I don't whip him when he does something wrong. Just when he does something good.”