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

For me writing is foremost a mode of thinking and when it works well, an act of discovery

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

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