I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.