Pen-bereavement Is A Serious Matter.

Books Wrote Our Life Story, And As They Accumulated On Our Shelves (and On Our Windowsills, And Underneath Our Sofa, And On Top Of Our Refrigerator), They Became Chapters In It Themselves.

For Me, Literature Is A Way Of Enlarging Myself By Learning About People Who Are Not Like Me.

The Action Most Worth Watching Is Not At The Center Of Things, But Where Edges Meet.

I Have Always Felt That The Action Most Worth Watching Is Not At The Center Of Things But Where Edges Meet. I Like Shorelines, Weather Fronts, International Borders. There Are Interesting Frictions And Incongruities In These Places, And Often, If You Stand At The Point Of Tangency, You Can See Both Sides Better Than If You Were In The Middle Of Either One.

Pen-bereavement Is A Serious Matter.