The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

All pornography is to a degree sadistic - inevitably.

In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

Language is memory and metaphor.