We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

My religion is no way of knowing me.

All I did was write it down, one word after the other, beginning and ending with the same one, Bombay.

The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done

Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You can’t have that kind of thing, cut it out!”

The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did, and as was the case with all addicts, gratification was the important thing.

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.