Of The Seven Deadly Sins, Only Envy

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 Myself Think Anti-semitism Is About Envy.

For Me Writing Is Foremost A Mode Of Thinking And When It Works Well, An Act Of Discovery

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

What Distinguishes Us One From Another Is Our Dreams, And What We Do To Make Them Come About.