How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.