Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.
Always a godfather, never a god.
American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
Everybody is bisexual, and that is a fact of human nature. Some people practice both, and some practice one thing, and some people practice another thing and that is the way human beings are.
Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.