I kneel to my Lord because I am such a failure. I pray, I hope, I look to the Gospels.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.