When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine. . .and then make them plausible.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed.

Wealth inequality has increased.

Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

Hillary Clinton is not done yet.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.