If I Were To Live My Life

Novelist-citizen Of Two Countries Interpreter Of His Generation On Both Sides Of The Sea.

Americans Will Eat Garbage Provided You Sprinkle It Liberally With Ketchup.

Things Are Always Different Than What They Might Be...if You Wait For Them To Change, You Will Never Do Anything.

It Takes An Endless Amount Of History To Make Even A Little Tradition.

The Effect, If Not The Prime Office, Of Criticism Is To Make Our Absorption And Our Enjoyment Of The Things That Feed The Mind As Aware Of Itself As Possible, Since That Awareness Quickens The Mental Demand, Which Thus In Turn Wanders Further And Further For Pasture. This Action On The Part Of The Mind Practically Amounts To A Reaching Out For The Reasons Of Its Interest, As Only By Its Ascertaining Them Can The Interest Grow More Various. This Is The Very Education Of Our Imaginative Life.