Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

America is a very religious nation. Not a mono-religious nation because there are many different strands of belief, but there's something about this nation that inspires people, or perhaps draws people, who are strongly idealistic.

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.

For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.

In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.