At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

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

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.