Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

While you are living, part of you has slipped away to the cemetery.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Boston - wrinkled, spindly-legged, depleted of nearly all her spiritual and cutaneous oils, provincial, self-esteeming - has gone on spending and spending her inflated bills of pure reputation, decade after decade.

Here in the city the worst thing that can happen to a nation has happened: we are a people afraid of its youth.