Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
Now is the age of anxiety.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story. But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.