Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.