… the writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is … - John Steinbeck

They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China.

So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur ever existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.

The land is so much more than its analysis.