To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

The only people are those who don't love anybody.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.