He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert.

Murderer ain't fit to eternity.

The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.

To solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

One of the reasons why I chose to live in New York was that there is this sense of your environment constantly changing.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.