Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.