That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question.

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.