You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.