We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Every great thinker is someone else's moron.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.