Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.

As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

Yeah, it seems like that. But that's the way we like it.