Intimacy isn’t something men talk about.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

People like to be listened to, as every researcher knows – every researcher, every writer, every spy.

I was about as political as a bath towel.

...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

The soul awakens in times obscurity by divine grace.

It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

Hope is such an important component to moving forward and getting past the difficult times.

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.