Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.