“Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized...” — Allan Gurganus Quote

“Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.”

“After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.”

“I'm a great admirer of Primo Levi's work. It's always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.”

“Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.”

“Without a doubt my reference point is Dani Alves. I've been an admirer of his ever since I started playing football. I've been following him since he played for Sevilla. He's written a piece of football history and I think that once he retires he will be regarded as a legend.”