What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.