How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
LoveI don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
Viggo MortensenI think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram SethI would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
Virginia WoolfHow some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis