If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.