Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.