Shifting Problems Is The First

Quoting, Like Smoking, Is A Dirty Habit To Which I Am Devoted.

What Marks A Writer Is This: Until She - Or He, Of Course - Writes Down Whatever Happened, Turns It Into A Story, It Hasn't Really Happened, It Hasn't Shape, Form, Reality.

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.

Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty Gestures.

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.