The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

I always tried to do cool things.