There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.
I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.
We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.