The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

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

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

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.

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

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.