Experience and disappointments had made us methodical. Auteur: Charles Baxter Copy Quote More from Charles Baxter “His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of s…” “She'd like to say something about the metaphors of space. She won't, but she'd …” “Everybody should customize their names.” “A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous…”