Life Is All Getting Used To What

Literature Is The Province Of Imagination, And Stories, In Whatever Guise, Are Meditations On Life.

The Minute You Become Conscious That You Are Doing Good, That's The Minute You Have To Stop Because From Then On It's Wrong.

Imagination Has To Do With One's Awareness Of The Reality Of Other People As Well As Of One's Own Reality. Imagination Is A Bridge Between The Provincialism Of The Self And The Great World.

Families Hold Each Other In An Iron Grip Of Definition. One Must Break The Grip, Somehow.

A Year And A Half After The End Of The War And The German Occupation, Paris Was Muted And Looked Bruised And Forlorn. Everywhere I Went, I Sensed The Tracks Of The Wolf That Had Tried To Devour The City. But Paris Proved Inedible, As It Had Been Ever Since Its Tribal Beginnings On An Island In The Seine, The Ile De La Cité.