You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.
I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.
Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.