Deadly sins Quote by Joseph Epstein

I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.

— Joseph Epstein

I think the story is my form.

— Joseph Epstein

I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other…

— Joseph Epstein

“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment…”

— Joseph Epstein

I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.

— Joseph Epstein

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

— Joseph Epstein

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent…

— Joseph Epstein

Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that…

— Joseph Epstein

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

— Joseph Epstein

“Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A…

— Joseph Epstein

Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.

— Joseph Epstein

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with…

— Joseph Epstein