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.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Literature is the only art in which the audience performs the score.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.