No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.

“How’s the patient?” asked Derby.“Dead to the world.”“But not actually dead.”“No…”

“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth con…”

“If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don…”

“If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I woul…”