It’s not so hard to be politically correct. All you have to do is not be an asshole.

“‘I think that Nabokov often tries to be inhumanly secure, and confident, and happy, and unregretful,’ Wood observes. ‘If he pulled that off, he would be a monster. It’s a fine thing to try—and an even finer thing to fail.’” —Lev Grossman, “The gay Nabokov”