Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through the individual's calloused capacity to feel undifferentiated emotions full of longing and dissatisfaction and monumentality.

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible.

Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.