What A Child Doesn't Receive He Can

To Look Back On One's Life Is To Experience The Capriciousness Of Memory. ... The Past Is Not Static. It Can Be Relived Only In Memory, And Memory Is A Device For Forgetting As Well As Remembering. It, Too, Is Not Immutable. It Rediscovers, Reinvents, Reorganizes. Like A Passage Of Prose It Can Be Revised And Repunctuated. To That Extent, Every Autobiography Is A Work Of Fiction And Every Work Of Fiction An Autobiography.

Great Literature Cannot Grow From A Neglected Or Impoverished Soil. Only If We Actually Tend Or Care Will It Transpire That Every Hundred Years Or So We Might Get A Middlemarch.

If All Power Corrupts, Then A Doctor, Who Literally Holds Life And Death In His Hands, Must Be At Particular Risk.

It's Possible To Fight Intolerance, Stupidity And Fanaticism When They Come Separately. When You Get All Three Together It's Probably Wiser To Get Out, If Only To Preserve Your Sanity.

Metaphysical Speculation Is About As Pointless As A Discussion On The Meaning Of One's Lungs. They're For Breathing.