What Marks A Writer Is This: Until

Professors Of Literature Collect Books The Way A Ship Collects Barnacles, Without Seeming Effort.

I Don't Know Why Togetherness Was Ever Held Up As An Ideal Of Marriage. Away From Home For Both, Then Together, That's Much Better.

Why Do Long Marriages Occasionally Endow Their Inhabitants With A Rare Kind Of Equilibrium Otherwise Almost Unknown In Human Relations? My Guess Is That The Value Of The Moment Has At Last Overshadowed The Long History Of Resentments, Betrayals, And Boredom.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.

Only A Marriage With Partners Strong Enough To Risk Divorce Is Strong Enough To Avoid It.