The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.

It was van Gogh's madness that prevented him from working; the paintings themselves are ineffably sane, if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment o…

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look lik…

Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust t…

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won …

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through 'reminiscence,' that is by 'remembering,' by intuitively searching into our own e…

I never saw Portsmouth by day.