Not To Like Ice Cream Is To

The Problem For Me Is That Reading Is, I Won't Say A Sacred, But Nevertheless A Pretty Serious Act.

Not To Like Ice Cream Is To Show Oneself Uninterested In Food.

While Reading Writers Of Great Formulatory Power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I Find I Can Scarcely Get Through A Page Without Having To Stop To Record Some Lapidary Sentence. Reading Henry James, For Example, I Have Muttered To Myself, "c’mon, Henry, Turn Down The Brilliance A Notch, So I Can Get Some Reading Done." I May Be One Of A Very Small Number Of People Who Have Developed Writer’s Cramp While Reading.

Political Correctness And So Many Of The Political Fashions Of The Day...could Only Be Perpetrated In Adolescent Minds: Minds, That Is, That Are Trained To Search Out One Thing And One Thing Only...only An Adolescent Would Find It Worthwhile To Devote His Or Her Attention Chiefly To The Hunting Of Offenses, The Possibility Of Slights, Real And Imagined.

The Decisive Moment In The Defeat Of Upper Class, Capital-s, Society May Have Come When, In Newspapers All Over The Nation, What Used To Be Call The Society Page Was Replaced By The Style Section.