We are all migrants through time.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

The end of the world can be cozy at times.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

It’s a baby. A baby can’t be without a mother.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

There are movies that change the whole way in which films are made, like Klute, where Gordon Willis’s photography on the film is so textured, and, they said, too dark.

For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on.

I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?"

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.