We Can Talk Frankly About Our Defects

To Feminine Eyes A Man's Prestige, Or His Fame, Envelops Him In A Luminous Haze Which Obscures His Faults. The Triumphs Of An Aviator, An Actor, A Football Player, An Orator Are Often Responsible For The Beginning Of A Love Affair.

Love Born Of Anxiety Resembles A Thorn Shaped So That Efforts To Pull It Out Of One's Flesh Merely Cause It To Penetrate More Deeply Therein.

A Great Biography Should, Like The Close Of A Great Drama, Leave Behind It A Feeling Of Serenity. We Collect Into A Small Bunch The Flowers, The Few Flowers, Which Brought Sweetness Into A Life, And Present It As An Offering To An Accomplished Destiny. It Is The Dying Refrain Of A Completed Song, The Final Verse Of A Finished Poem.

The Need To Express One's Self In Writing Springs From A Maladjustment Of Life, Or From An Inner Conflict Which The Adolescent (or The Grown Man) Cannot Resolve In Action.

The Difficult Part In An Argument Is Not To Defend One's Opinion But Rather To Know It.