Writers, famous ones especially, are cads. Alert the media.

Above, the eyes of sensitive poet and insensitive world-class cad, Rainer Maria Rilke.

“One unexpected development of becoming a writer is meeting literary heroes,” Justin Torres, author of “We the Animals,” told me. “Unfortunately, sometimes they turn out to be asses, or they hit on you.”

"The experience of a book is so much better than the experience of a person.” 

Read many a recounting of appalling meetings of literary heros by women who're asked to sit on laps or lick tattoos. (I wonder how many times these writers used the same lines on other star-blinded nubile greenhorns and succeeded? I'm guessing enough to keep trying.) 

Get the juice from the NY Times article here.

"Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.”
Amen