We Are All Tourists In History, And

Aphorisms Are Bad For Novels. They Stick In The Reader's Teeth.

In An Age Like Ours, Which Is Not Given To Letter-writing, We Forget What An Important Part It Used To Play In People's Lives.

If A Book Is Really Good, It Deserves To Be Read Again, And If It's Great, It Should Be Read At Least Three Times.

It Is One Of The Paradoxes Of American Literature That Our Writers Are Forever Looking Back With Love And Nostalgia At Lives They Couldn't Wait To Leave.

The Contents Of Someone's Bookcase Are Part Of His History, Like An Ancestral Portrait.