This Ain't A War... It's A Goddam

In The Last Twenty-five Years A Change Has Come Over The Visual Habits Of Americans . . . From Being A Wordminded People We Are Becoming An Eyeminded People.

There Is A Part Of Me In Every Character, Naturally. That's Why Novelists Rarely Write Good Autobiographies. You Start One And It Becomes Another Novel.

The Only Way To Find Out Anything About What Kinds Of Lives People Led In Any Given Period Is To Tunnel Into Their Records And To Let Them Speak For Themselves

It's Easy To Forget How Central The French People Are In Everything We Mean When We Say Europe.

Men Who Have Lost Their Conviction Of What Is Good And What Is Bad Find Themselves Without A Sextant To Check Their Position By. We Are In The Position Of A Man With An Elaborate Camping Kit Who Finds Himself Lost In The Woods Without His Matches; To Kindle A Fire He Has To Resort To The Stratagems Of The Caveman. We Fall Back Through Generations Into The Oldest Terrors And Confusions Of The Race.