Sublime

(He tells the story, memorably, in his 1979 memoir, LSD, My Problem Child.)

Tom Wolfe.”

Most unforgivable was that a nation founded on Madisonian principles allowed secret police powers to accrue over forty years, until real and imagined heresies alike could be punished by methods less open to correction than the Salem witch trials. The hidden spectacle was the more grotesque because King and Levison both in fact were the rarest heroe

let his mind roam on the page.

In my head, I imagine that when I’m dead, when I can no longer defend my records or explain them, the periodicals will stay forever, like they did in the reading room at the Philadelphia Main Library, and those reviews will become the final word on the things that I’ve created.

Baldwin

“Live dangerously—carefully.”

He was a leaf that could be blown in any direction