Old Age Makes Caricatures Of

Ambition, If It Were To Be Savored, Let Alone Achieved, Had To Be Rooted In Possibility.

Read Widely, Not In Order To Copy Someone Else's Style, But To Learn To Appreciate And Recognize Good Writing And To See How The Best Writers Have Achieved Their Result. Poor Writing Is, Unfortunately, Infectious And Should Be Avoided.

To Look Back On One's Life Is To Experience The Capriciousness Of Memory. ... The Past Is Not Static. It Can Be Relived Only In Memory, And Memory Is A Device For Forgetting As Well As Remembering. It, Too, Is Not Immutable. It Rediscovers, Reinvents, Reorganizes. Like A Passage Of Prose It Can Be Revised And Repunctuated. To That Extent, Every Autobiography Is A Work Of Fiction And Every Work Of Fiction An Autobiography.

We Can Experience Nothing But The Present Moment, Live In No Other Second Of Time, And To Understand This Is As Close As We Can Get To Eternal Life.

Creativity Doesn't Flourish In An Atmosphere Of Despotism, Coercion And Fear.