To Confer Dignity, Forgive. To Express Contempt,

Virtue Sometimes Pretends. Vice Is Always Sincere.

I Read Here And There In Books, Enjoying The Examples And Ignoring The Argument.

Curiosity, Easily Frightened, Takes Refuge In Puzzles, Murder Mysteries, And Spectator Sports.

After Ages Of Bombast, The Rhetoric Of Virtue Has Become Ironic And Shy.

New York Loves Itself In An Unkind And Fanatical Way.