What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

The world invited me many places.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.