He saw the arrival of a visitor as an opportunity to fish on the Pilar after many weeks of enforced idleness. I'll explain to Mary that you're coming down to cut me up and feed me to William Faulkner. That's what she told me when I agreed to see her up in New York. I knew her for a long time. There's a lot of difference between night thinking and day thinking.
Night thoughts are usually nothing.
The work you do at night you always will have to do over again in the daytime anyhow. So let's talk. When I talk, incidentally, it's just talk. But when I write I mean it for good. In his early period that use of the subconscious enabled him to produce apparently simple works that have an amazing resonance.