The Horror Of Our History

If You Would Learn A Thing, Straightway Declare Yourself A Professor Of It!

History - An Account, Mostly False, Of Events, Mostly Unimportant

The First Obligation Of The Writer Is To Be Interesting. To Be Interesting; Not To Change The World.

One Of The Things I Miss About Teaching Is That Students Would Tell Me What I Ought To Read. One Of My Students, Back In The 1960s, Put Me Onto Borges, And I Remember Another Mentioning Flann O'brien's At Swim Two-birds In The Same Way.

Those Rituals Of Getting Ready To Write Produce A Kind Of Trance State.