I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

This was why I hated beautiful people. They build you up and then they destroy you. And we let 'em.

To have a future we have to live and leave the present.

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

Eat, drink and remarry is my motto.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.