rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.

To me thin people never had any meaningful problems.

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.