As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower.