Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.