All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

All politicians know that every 'temporary' political initiative promised as a short-term poultice stays on the books forever.

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

It's true that the young who now flock to script writing, or producing and directing, to fulfill the demands of these new devices would, in an earlier period, have been submitting to magazines and working on their first novels. But even in the midst of all these "digital products," the wonder of it is that there are still so many young writers who continue to believe in the venerable print novel as the corridor to fame and fortune.