The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.