I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

Being natural is one of the most irritating poses I know in people.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.