Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.