Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage.