My literary ambitions have cooled a good deal since college, when we all longed to be great and to win big prizes. Now I look on writing as simply something I do every day, as some people attend Mass and others tend gardens, so I sit down and write. I'd like to be a man of letters, capable of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism, and I have a long way to go. If I could ever write a full-length play, I'd be a happy man. But meanwhile I've managed to support myself by writing, which was my big goal as a student at the U, impossible as it seemed at the time, and that gives me a certain satisfaction.
Writing is pure entrepreneurship and a great way of life.
And then, if you do a radio show every Saturday, you have a built-in social life. So it's a pretty good deal.