History is the lies of the victors.

History is the lies of the victors.

Why should anything happen when everything has happened?

...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.