God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made dream - the two, of course, being intimately connected and interacting with each other.