To govern is to choose.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

We are concerned with things. We are concerned with success. We are concerned with money. We are concerned with instrumentalities.

Human life is too difficult for people.

I typically have a martini.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.