Normal Is Absolutely My Least Favorite Word.

Everyone Likes To Talk Shop, Which Is The Most Interesting Talk In The World, In The Beginning.

One Hires Lawyers As On Hires Plumbers, Because One Wants To Keep One's Hands Off The Beastly Drains.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.

Whether Deliberately, Unconsciously Or Accidentally, She Seems To Have Composed Her Own Life So That Its Fitful, Rudderless, And Self-doubting First Half Was Alchemized Into Gold When The Austere Bluestocking Became The Fallen Woman.

Why Do Long Marriages Occasionally Endow Their Inhabitants With A Rare Kind Of Equilibrium Otherwise Almost Unknown In Human Relations? My Guess Is That The Value Of The Moment Has At Last Overshadowed The Long History Of Resentments, Betrayals, And Boredom.