Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face

Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.