"...one basic difference between the two was that Alfred Chester always felt the official world was his enemy, while Sontag felt part of it and expected its approval, its rewards -- her famous Sense of Entitlement....It was odd that he picked on Susan to marry, since he had always called her a whore, but an alliance between the two would have positioned him for the success he needed."
"...the great love of Stanley Kunitz, as she had been of Josephine Herbst....She had a marvelous independent spirit, something like the free-living Edna St. Vincent Millay."
"Jimmy supported himself God-knows-how. When he was really broke, he told me he wrote to Marlon brando. He said they had met in the men's room at the New School in the Village...."