Love Is Just A System For Getting

Irony ... May Be Defined As What People Miss.

It Took Me Some Years To Clear My Head Of What Paris Wanted Me To Admire About It, And To Notice What I Preferred Instead. Not Power-ridden Monuments, But Individual Buildings Which Tell A Quieter Story: The Artist's Studio, Or The Belle Epoque House Built By A Forgotten Financier For A Just-remembered Courtesan.

Writers Of Either Gender Ought To Be Able To Do The Opposite Sex-that's One Basic Test Of Competence, After All.

Alice Munro Can Move Characters Through Time In A Way That No Other Writer Can.

I'm A Complete Democrat In Terms Of Who Buys My Books.