To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

We are all citizens of history.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.