The little girl on the plane Who turned her doll's head around To look at me.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.

I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.