Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

What we need now is endless courage.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.