“I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one recounts; I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calm, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility is a FOOL and a LIAR. To understand is to tremble. I admire the authority of being on one’s knees in front of the event.”
— Harold Brodkey
