Oh, That Sound? I'm In The Hot

I Wrote The Dickens Book Because I Loved Dickens, Not Because I Felt A Kinship With Him, But After Writing The Book It Seemed To Me That There Was At Least One Similarity Between Us And That Was That Dickens Loved To Write And Wrote With The Ease And Conviction Of Breathing. Me, Too.

I Discovered That The Horse Is Life Itself, A Metaphor But Also An Example Of Life's Mystery And Unpredictability, Of Life's Generosity And Beauty, A Worthy Object Of Repeated And Ever Changing Contemplation.

The Essence Of Charity ... Was Not Deciding What Others Needed And Giving It To Them, But Giving Them What They Wanted.

As Soon As You Bring Up Money, I Notice, Conversation Gets Sociological, Then Political, Then Moral.

Some Novelists Are Luckier Than Others In The Eras Of Their Formative Intellectual Years, But All Weltanschauungs Return, Which Means That Most Novelists Have At Least A Chance Of A Revival.