With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.