Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment."

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.