I Am The Heterosexual Truman Capote.

I Just Know So Many People Who Have Six Or Seven Foreign Languages And Have Read Everything And Have Musical Training And They Are Still Dorks

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — Once Said That Anything That Can Be Read Twice Is Literature; I Would Say That Anything That Bears Saying Twice Is Quotable.

While Reading Writers Of Great Formulatory Power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I Find I Can Scarcely Get Through A Page Without Having To Stop To Record Some Lapidary Sentence. Reading Henry James, For Example, I Have Muttered To Myself, "c’mon, Henry, Turn Down The Brilliance A Notch, So I Can Get Some Reading Done." I May Be One Of A Very Small Number Of People Who Have Developed Writer’s Cramp While Reading.

Food Has It Over Sex For Variety. Hedonistically, Gustatory Possibilities Are Much Broader Than Copulatory Ones.

I Think The Story Is My Form.