At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.