I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I’m still going through the motions.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters.