I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth wisdom or wealth the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America...
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
These are strange times. Reason which once combatted faith and seemed to...
I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.
The best and most beautiful things in the world...
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but...