I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

One of the problems with watching TV is that you've got a fairly low level of language operating all the time. Quite a small vocabulary and really no conceptual or abstract thinking. That's an issue. If you've got a wide vocabulary, you can learn. The complexities of grammar, in themselves, force you to think about time in a particular way. Force you to widen your outlook on the world.

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.