Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.