Memory Fades, Memory Adjusts, Memory

Writers Are Only Rarely Likable.

It Is Often Said That New York Is A City For Only The Very Rich And The Very Poor. It Is Less Often Said That New York Is Also, At Least For Those Of Us Who Came There From Somewhere Else, A City For Only The Very Young.

There Is Always A Point In The Writing Of A Piece When I Sit In A Room Literally Papered With False Starts And Cannot Put One Word After Another And Imagine That I Have Suffered A Small Stroke, Leaving Me Apparently Undamaged But Actually Aphasic.

Water Is Important To People Who Do Not Have It, And The Same Is True Of Control.

A Single Person Is Missing For You, And The Whole World Is Empty.