Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

There are places in my heart...where no living soul...has...or can ever...trespass.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.