Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.