I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.
There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
We're all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
Without freedom there is no art.
The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.