Charm Is Often Despised But I Can

Not So Much Two Ships Passing In The Night As Two Ships Sailing Together For A Time But Always Bound For Different Ports.

To Look Back On One's Life Is To Experience The Capriciousness Of Memory. ... The Past Is Not Static. It Can Be Relived Only In Memory, And Memory Is A Device For Forgetting As Well As Remembering. It, Too, Is Not Immutable. It Rediscovers, Reinvents, Reorganizes. Like A Passage Of Prose It Can Be Revised And Repunctuated. To That Extent, Every Autobiography Is A Work Of Fiction And Every Work Of Fiction An Autobiography.

Read Widely, Not In Order To Copy Someone Else's Style, But To Learn To Appreciate And Recognize Good Writing And To See How The Best Writers Have Achieved Their Result. Poor Writing Is, Unfortunately, Infectious And Should Be Avoided.

Charm Is Always Genuine; It May Be Superficial But It Isn't False.

The World Is Changed Not By The Self-regarding, But By Men And Women Prepared To Make Fools Of Themselves.