“It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.”

I love research – that’s all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That’s a serious flaw in my writing process – shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Sometimes I lose my temper.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Sometimes a poor performance is better for enjoyment, because you can look at those things that were wrong and analyze them.