His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.
The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
I love to read the way people love to watch television.
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.