The Endless Chatter Of This Journey Had

I Wanted To Be A Poet When I Was 20; I Had No Interest In Fiction Or Biography And Precious Little Interest In History, But Those Three Elements In My Life Have Become The Most Important.

One Can Forgive Shakespeare Anything, Except One's Own Bad Lines.

There Is No Humiliation Worse Than The Consciousness Of A Wasted Life. It Stains The Spirit, Forestalls Hope, And Destroys Any Motive For Action Or Change.

I Never Read In Bed, Only In My Study.

Familial Love Can Find An Echo In Our Own Hearts Just As It Did In That Of Charles Dickens.