It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

I believe that Israel is very likely not to survive, it's not going to last forever, and now there's nothing that someone like me can do about it, in that it's a threat of nuclear or biological or chemical attack.