Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

Winning has a value for ego, but participation has a value for life.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

I could die in this bed with him right now, wrapped in his arms and I would never know that I had died.

They call it 'surfing' the net. It's not surfing. It's typing in your bedroom

I don't really talk about my process very much, because I feel like if I give something away, it might not come back.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.