I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

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.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.