I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

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.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons, --only, " he added, "ours must be tranquil.

If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.

It's the start that stops most people.

Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

I can take strange detours and linger in places and do things that have no budgetary restraints.