I Long For The Raised Voice, The

To Be An American (unlike Being English Or French Or Whatever) Is Precisely To Imagine A Destiny Rather Than To Inherit One; Since We Have Always Been, Insofar As We Are Americans At All, Inhabitants Of Myth Rather Than History.

Delillo Never Seems Committed To Me To What He Is Writing. Very Nice Surfaces, But He's Got Nothing Underneath.

I've Been Writing About James Fenimore Cooper. He Was Not A Writer. Here Was A Man Who Was 30 Years Old And Had Never Put Anything More Than His Signature On Paper.

I Have, I Admit, A Low Tolerance For Detached Chronicling And Cool Analysis.

I Like That People Who Are Not Experts Can Not Only Understand But Get Engaged By My Work. I Like That Joe Paterno Can Read Me. Bill Bradley.