My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

Most of my reading is rereading.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.