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You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

I have a clear conscience.

If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen.