Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.

How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.