It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is differen…

We hope the 'real' person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.