We In Middle Age Require

One Hires Lawyers As On Hires Plumbers, Because One Wants To Keep One's Hands Off The Beastly Drains.

Quoting, Like Smoking, ... Is A Dirty Habit To Which I Am Devoted. But Then ... I Am A Professor Of English Literature; It Is An Occupational Hazard.

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

As Long As Women Are Isolated One From The Other, Not Allowed To Offer Other Women The Most Personal Accounts Of Their Lives, They Will Not Be Part Of Any Narratives Of Their Own…women Will Be Staving Off Destiny And Not Inviting Or Inventing Or Controlling It.

Maturity ... Is Letting Things Happen.