I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.