Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

The first breathe of adultery is the freest.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.