The novel is rescued life.

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen will be blamed for it. No one will believe he has merely guessed.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.