My Mind Is Not Suited To Go

A Writer's First Duty Is To Be Clear. Clarity Is An Excellent Virtue. Like All Virtues It Can Be Pursued At Ruinous Cost. Paid, So Far As I Am Concerned, Joyfully.

Speaking The Truth, Once You Have Started It, Is Too Exhilarating To Draw Back.

Any Marriage Worth The Name Is No Better Than A Series Of Beginnings - Many Of Them Abortive.

Writers Sometimes Talk As Though They Were The Only Friends Of Civilization. This Is Their Conceit. But They Have Special Powers To Serve -- Or To Corrupt -- Civilization, And Are Obliged To Use Them.

A Joke Is A Joke Or The Image Of A Truth.