Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. Theyรre going someplace.
Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.
What a phrase that is: 'that explains everything!' I know better than to think anything 'explains everything' today.
Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life