Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.
I am the heterosexual Truman Capote.
One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism.
I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.