History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

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

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Love is wiser than wisdom.