Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.