Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

"Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.