I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

The camera can photograph thought.

The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

In the world we live, either everyone is stupid or no one is.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

We write to make sense of it all.