I Am Married To Someone I Love.

In Recompense, Envy May Be The Subtlest - Perhaps I Should Say The Most Insidious - Of The Seven Deadly Sins.

I Am Afraid I Am One Of Those People Who Continues To Read In The Hope Of Sometime Discovering In A Book A Single—and Singular—piece Of Wisdom So Penetrating, So Soul Stirring, So Utterly Applicable To My Own Life As To Make All The Bad Books I Have Read Seem Well Worth The Countless Hours Spent On Them. My Guess Is That This Wisdom, If It Ever Arrives, Will Do So In The Form Of A Generalization.

That Wine Drinking Is More Effete Than Beer Drinking? No Question.

We Use Books Like Mirrors, Gazing Into Them Only To Discover Ourselves.

What All Great Teachers Appear To Have In Common Is Love Of Their Subject, An Obvious Satisfaction In Rousing This Love In Their Students, And An Ability To Convince Them That What They Are Being Taught Is Deadly Serious