Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

You know that you can't make references to the Classics any longer and less and less to the English classics even.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.