I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

The Great Mother does not say that destruction is wrong. She simply provides all that her children dream of

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

The biggest mystery of the people is "The People".

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

Be glad you're fifty - andThat you got there while things were nice,In a world worth looking at twice.So here's wishing you many more years,But not all that many. Cheers!

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

I love creating moments that feel bigger than just like an artist on stage.