Novelists Tend To Go Off At 70,

It Is Terrible To See Someone Being Beaten Up By The English Language.

Most Writers Need A Wound, Either Physical Or Spiritual.

It Is Terrible To See Someone Being Beaten Up By The English Language.

[on Stds] This Be Nature’s Way Of Recommending Monogamy.

What Did Nabokov And Joyce Have In Common, Apart From The Poor Teeth And The Great Prose? Exile, And Decades Of Near Pauperism. A Compulsive Tendency To Overtip. An Uxoriousness That Their Wives Deservedly Inspired. More Than That, They Both Lived Their Lives 'beautifully'--not In Any Jamesian Sense (where, Besides, Ferocious Solvency Would Have Been A Prerequisite), But In The Droll Fortitude Of Their Perseverance. They Got The Work Done, With Style.