There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.