Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

The one thing I need to leave behind is good memories.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

Saints and sages are still alive. Great masters are still operating. It is up to you to find where they are.

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for our long-term economic future.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.