entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are. - Richard Ford

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people — men and women alike — could go on to happier, more productive lives.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being