Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

The whole thing was quite absurd,

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

My father had very little formal education.

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.