“Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.”

“People write for ego gratification, not money.”

“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”

“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my beliefmy experience alsothat women do not have the need to collect that men have.”

“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching fo...”

“You know, what I've always done is take a look through a book, look at the paper stock, the printing, the publisher, the actual content, and, taking everything into account, I price it. . . . And n...”

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.”

“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in philosophy for the purpose of rendering the system of morals more comple...”

“But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attemp...”