Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

Art is about paying attention.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.