To Want To Be What One Can

After A Certain Number Of Years, Our Faces Become Our Biographies.

The Power Of Language, It Seems To Me, Is The Only Kind Of Power A Writer Is Entitled To.

I Can't Claim To Be Disenchanted "with The Current State Of Fiction" Because I Read So Little Of It. My Reading Is Mostly Drawn To History.

We Have Had, Alas, And Still Have, The Doubtful Habit Of Reverence. Above All, We Respect Things As They Are.

Old Saws Have No Teeth.