Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk.

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.