There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails. It always fails. It can never be the cruel happy place we want to make it.

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.