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

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

The problem for me is that reading is, I won't say a sacred, but nevertheless a pretty serious act.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.