These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

The problem with our sense of justice is we always seemed to be kind to beautiful and attractive criminals.

American journalism (like the journalism of any other country) is predominantly paltry and worthless. Its pretensions are enormous, but its achievements are insignificant.

Not only does evil depend upon good, but in this case, darkness depends upon light.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

There are 190,000 privately-owned full-auto guns in the National Registry.

Being a smart shopper is the first step to getting rich.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

I love dressing for the winter - especially in baggy chunky cardigans.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.