Donald Zagoria

Legendary historian and author Donald Zagoria passed on at 97 years young earlier this month. He's survived by his son, basketball and tennis journalist Adam Zagoria, and books including Vietnam Triangle: Moscow, Peking, Hanoi. In 1976, Donald had a chance to discuss China on Firing Line with William F. Buckley. Rest in peace, Donald Zagoria.

Do stories have something to say?

“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can’t rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.”

~~ from The Joke by Milan Kundera

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