I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

If you're being attacked from all sides, it's possible you're doing something right; it's also possible that you are doing everything wrong.

I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.