Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.