Archives for May 18, 2021

From 2017:

Alas, the American Orient Express went bankrupt before I could book a trip to nowhere, and I doubt I’ll get another chance to relive the good old days of luxury train travel. Not enough Americans love trains to make it worth anybody’s while anymore. Unlike me, they see them as slow, bumpy, exasperatingly uncomfortable ways of getting from point A to point B, not as the miraculous vehicles of romance about which Johnny Mercer and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote so evocatively and well….

Read the whole thing here.

“It’s only in one’s older age that one does one’s best work. Youth and old age are the two greatest moments; middle-age is the enemy of art.”

Orson Welles, in conversation with Peter Bogdanovich