Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.
I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it
Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.
There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.