Italy Has Sun And Tomatoes, And Russia

Usually, With A Novel, You Start With No Idea What To Do Because Your Job Is To Create Convincing Characters And Then They Just Run Around Getting Crazy. The Problem With Writing A Memoir, Obviously, Is You Can't Do That Because You Sort Of Know What's Going To Happen. Because You're The Character.

The Best Thing About The Iphone Is This That Tells Me Where I Am All The Time. Theres Never A Need To Feel Lost Anymore.

Then I Celebrated My Wall Of Books. I Counted The Volumes On My Twenty-foot-long Modernist Bookshelf To Make Sure None Had Been Misplaced Or Used As Kindling By My Subtenant. “you’re My Sacred Ones,” I Told The Books. “no One But Me Still Cares About You. But I’m Going To Keep You With Me Forever. And One Day I’ll Make You Important Again.” I Thought About That Terrible Calumny Of The New Generation: That Books Smell.

The Radio Station Was Playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, A Sure Sign That Things Were Much Worse Than They Appeared.

Vodka Is A Wonderful Drink. You Can Drink So Much Of It Without Being As Hung Over As You Would If You Were Drinking One Of The Brown Liquors - The Whiskeys And Such. It's A Great Drink To Go With Appetizers.