Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Where most of us end up there is no knowing, but the hellbent get where they are going.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

God bless... God damn.

I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.