To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.