New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

Language cannot say everything, fortunately.

Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.