War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.