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. An Indian treaty was made in his house. After he died, Pieter Bronck, who was thought to be his son, and Jonas's widow moved up to Fort Orange, Albany. Her second husband was Arend Van Curler, the founder of Schenectady.