Sometimes It Seems That We Might Have

Aphorisms Are Bad For Novels. They Stick In The Reader's Teeth.

Two People Making Love, She Once Said, Are Like One Drowned Person Resuscitating The Other.

The Moment A Book Is Lent I Begin To Miss It.

The Epic Implications Of Being Human End In More Than This: We Start Our Lives As If They Were Momentous Stories, With A Beginning, A Middle And An Appropriate End, Only To Find That They Are Mostly Middles.

Ruefulness Is One Of The Classical Tones Of American Fiction. It Fosters A Native, Deglamorized Form Of Anxiety.