“I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”

Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter 6

Source: Empty Cages (2004), Ch. 4

1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)

Home Burial (1915)

Salvation (2005)

2010s, 2016, Donald Trump and the fitness threshold (2016)
Context: Of course we all try to protect our own dignity and command respect. But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability.
This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.

Source: Twelve Sharp

Source: Eleven Minutes

Source: Looking for Alibrandi