Anecdotal Evidence

'Tell Me About All You Read'

'What in Most Lives Would Be Pure Deficit'

'My Past Where No One Knows Me'

'Take Its Rise from Mutual Pleasure'

'He Knew Nothing Special But Himself'

'To Solemnize the Marriage Contract'

'In Hopper Light'

'He Thought of Little Things'

'Praise Cannot Be Totally Denied'

At the Bookstore

'Our Own Heaven-Created Palimpsest'

'In Praise of Half-Forgotten Books'

'Impossible Not to Be Entertained'

'The Death of Discourse'

'Seldom Softened By Any Appearance of Gaiety'

'And Aesthetics My Primary Value'

'I Would If Possible Imitate a Tree'

'We Talked About Philip Larkin'

'Essayists, Like Poets, Are Born and Not Made'

'We Have the Long List of Autodidacts'

'A Kind of Good Humoured Growl'

'A Place Remote and Islanded'

'Discipline Results in Freedom'

'What May Save Us Is Conversation'

'A Living Culture Is a Swarm of Moments'

'Passages of Especial Beauty'

'They Never Shun the Man of Sorrow'

'To Yield Myself to Tombstones and Oblivion'

'Not Disposed to Make Concessions to the World'

'Come Back Now As You Were in Youth'

'Old News Flutters From a Bottom Drawer'

'Entertain As Well As Illuminate'

'Like an Enormous Yes'

'Hardly the Most Fashionable of Writers'

'Old Men Are Generally Narrative'