Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Liberties are not given, they are taken.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.