I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

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

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

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

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

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