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

History is where tensions were.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

I have a plot, but not much happens.