Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.

As the ocean tugged me at my feet, i realized that Early Auden, that strangest of boys, had saved me from being swept away.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Men may come and men may go but I go on forever.

I watched Hillary Clinton. What a sad - what a sad situation. Every time I mention her, everyone screams, "Lock her up." "Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up," they keep screaming.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

Yesterday for contemplation, today for action.

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

I don't drive because I failed eight times and never got my license.

Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...