Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Poetry is the only art people haven't learned to consume like soup.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.