. . . A Relationship

Odd, The Years It Took To Learn One Simple Fact: That The Prize Just Ahead, The Next Job, Publication, Love Affair, Marriage Always Seemed To Hold The Key To Satisfaction But Never, In The Longer Run, Sufficed.

Power Consists To A Large Extent In Deciding What Stories Will Be Told.

Today's Shocks Are Tomorrow's Conventions.

Professors Of Literature Collect Books The Way A Ship Collects Barnacles, Without Seeming Effort.

Quoting, Like Smoking, ... Is A Dirty Habit To Which I Am Devoted. But Then ... I Am A Professor Of English Literature; It Is An Occupational Hazard.