When a marriage ends, who is left to understand it?

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

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.

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed.

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.