Useful quotes on revisiting one's older works

Robert Browning: "When I wrote that, God and I knew what it meant; now God alone knows."

Baron Bramwell: "The matter does not appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then."

(The latter statement was borrowed by Justice Jackson, among others. Justice Souter quoted another of Jackson's changes of heart when he explained that, though he hadn't gained any further experience with nude dancing in the years since his first case on the topic, his further experience with First Amendment issues induced him to change his vote on the government's burden in regulating such dancing.)

Summer writing projects: not always as successful as we want them to be.