Everywhere You Hang Your Hat Is Home.

Would It Be Anything Like A Literary Disaster If Gore Vidal Were To Fall Silent? Easy. No. In Fact, There Is Something To Be Said For The Idea.

People Travel Because It Teaches Them Things They Could Learn No Other Way.

Walter Duranty Helped To Turn The Monster Stalin Into A World Figure And A Hero Of The Leftistwestern Intelligentsia By Defending The Bloodbath Of The Soviet Union From Its Critics In The Now Famous: "you Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking Eggs.

Africa Has A Genious For Extremes, For The Beginning And The End. It Seems Simultaneously Connected To Some Memory Of Eden And To Some Foretaste Of Apocalypse. Nowhere Is Day More Vivid Or Night Darker. Nowhere Are Forests More Luxuriant. Nowhere Is There A Continent More Miserable

Never Try To Wear A Hat That Has More Character Than You Do.