How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Don't they get afraid, then?""They have a religion for that.

Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest.

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

Well, I've kept you waiting long enough, " he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.

They came to study the dreadful vulgarity of this imaginary Mass Man they pretend to hate. But they're fascinated with the snake-pit.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it.

To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.