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 believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

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

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.