Quotes of the day, May 23
I was an avid reader as a child. I am losing that habit now, as my brain congeals into cabbage from wearing too many heels and too much foundation.

February 3
February 2
One believes in what one wants to believe in.

February 1
My children haven't read 'Winter Journal'. They have read some of my work, but I really don't foist it on them. I want them to be free to discover it in their own good time. I think reading an intimate memoir by your father - or an intimate autobiographical work, whatever we want to call this thing - you have to come at it at the right moment, so I'm certainly not foisting it upon them.

January 31
If they say I am inconsistent let them say it, for it is true, because inconsistency is a part of living

January 30
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
