Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that I don't think of them as work in the usual sense of the word.

And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.

Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.

The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.