Liquor Is Not A Necessity.

When You Travel, Remember That A Foreign Country Is Not Designed To Make You Comfortable. It Is Designed To Make Its Own People Comfortable.

I Tried To Use The Questions And Answers As An Armature On Which To Build A Sculpture Of Genuine Conversation

There Is No Reader So Parochial As The One Who Reads None But This Morning's Books. Books Are Not Rolls, To Be Devoured Only When They Are Hot And Fresh. A Good Book Retains Its Interior Heat And Will Warm A Generation Yet Unborn.

Seriously, I Do Not Know What To Say Of This Book [ Absalom, Absalom!] Except That It Seem To Point To The Final Blowup Of What Was Once A Remarkable, If Minor, Talent… This Is A Penny Dreadful Tricked Up In Fancy Language And Given A Specious Depth By The Expert Manipulation Of A Series Of Eccentric Technical Tricks. The Characters Have No Magnitude And No Meaning Because They Have No More Reality Than A Mince-pie Nightmare.

By The End Of High School I Was Not Of Course An Educated Man, But I Knew How To Try To Become One