The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

I think all writing about art is in some way dancing to architecture. It's all about similitude, being analogous, metaphorical, adjectival, etc.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

When a hundred men stand together each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

I have never seen an employee who jumps out of bed in the morning in order to create shareholder value.

Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.

I drink therefore I am.