Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

Not greatly gifted, not deeply beautiful, Madonna tells America that fame comes from wanting it badly enough. And everyone is terribly good at badly wanting things.

It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.