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.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity.

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

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

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