The Only Real Nation Is Humanity

I Am Grateful To Stacy Schiff First Of All Because She Can Write A Sentence-because She Offers Us Her Scholarship With Wit, Clarity, And Grace. Once Again, She Has Done What Only The Best Writers Can Do: She Has Made The World New, Again.

I Tell Beginning Readers To Read A Lot And Write A Lot. If You Want To Write A Book, Find A Subject That's Really Worth The Time And Effort You'll Put In.

When Writers Stop Believing In Their Own Stories, Readers Tend To Sense It.

Among A Coward's Weapons, Cynicism Is The Nastiest Of All

In Order To Go On With Our Lives, We Are Always Capable Of Making The Ominous Into The Merely Strange.