We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything