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In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the ...more

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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.

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The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

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Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?

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It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

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I had never before been a special fan of that great comedian Phyllis Diller, but she utterly won my heart this week by sending me an envelope that, wh...more

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[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.

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Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide ...more

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As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the con...more

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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the s...more

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As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not ...more

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During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff....more

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The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

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In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.