A chronicle is very different from history proper.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.