Political correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.

I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

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

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

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

I am married to someone I love.