If Geniuses Can Sometimes Make Mistakes, Cannot

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.

I Am The Heterosexual Truman Capote.

A Writer Can Get Into A Vast Deal Of Trouble Through Misquotation. If You Ever Want To Receive Lots Of Mail, I Recommend You Get A Shakespeare Quote Wrong In A Magazine Or Newspaper.

I Myself Think Anti-semitism Is About Envy.

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.