Very frequently I think that I'm improving something. I make the improvements and then the next day realize that it was right the first time. Leave it alone. I like to read to a person or two or three here in the house. It's like having a conversation.
Public readings are something else again.
I was never invited very often. In recent years I have been invited and have refused because I don't want to do it anymore. Success is awfully hard to take. And we're all, including me, corruptible. A man named Jonas Bronck came into New Amsterdam in the early 17th century and bought the land which is now the Bronx.