There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

“It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and be…”

“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too man…”

“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a c…”

“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous L…”