And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.