Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.