One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it..

Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is ….

We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our ow….

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage..

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing….

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or pun….

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?.

Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, bl….

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging..

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret..

A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion..

The ears, which master the face of a dunce, are that part of the head which most publishes stupidity..

The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men ne….

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both..

There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It's not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of b….

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time..

Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a lang….

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc..

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, ….

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality..

The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim….