A Poet Or Novelist Will Invent Interruptions

Going To Europe, Someone Had Written, Was About As Final As Going To Heaven. A Mystical Passage To Another Life, From Which No-one Returned The Same. Those Returning In Such Ships Were Invincible, For They Had Managed It And Could Reflect Ever After On Anne Hathaway's Cottage Or The Tower Of London With A Confidence That Did Generate At Sydney. There Was Nothing Mythic At Sydney; Momentous Objects, Beings And Events All Occurred Abroad Or In The Elsewhere Of Books.

Sometimes, Surely, Truth Is Closer To Imagination Or To Intelligence, To Love Than To Fact? To Be Accurate Is Not To Be Right.

... One Doesn't Really Profit From Experience; One Merely Learns To Predict The Next Mistake.

When You Realize Someone Is Trying To Hurt You, It Hurts Less." "unless You Love Them.

Americans' Great And Secret Fear Is That America May Turn Out To Be A Phenomenon Rather Than A Civilization.