There Is A Deep Sadness To American

Just As The Blurring Between Childhood And Adulthood Has Produced The Kidult, So The Stretching Of Middle Into Old Age Has Fostered Another Peculiar Chimera: Septuagenarians With Apoptosis Sporting The Depeche Mode.

It Is Not That Sport, Over-indulged In, Coarsens The Mind; It Is That It Dulls It.

I Have A Healthy Appetite For Solitude. If You Don't, You Have No Business Being A Writer.

What The British Seem To Like Are Television Historians And Naturalists, Not Public Intellectuals. You Can't Help Feeling That's Because One Supplies Narrative And The Other Supplies Facts, And The British Are Traditionally Empiricists So They/we Have A Resistance To Theory And To Theoreticians Playing Too Prominent A Role In Public Life.

Always Carry A Notebook. And I Mean Always.