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

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.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.

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