Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.