I'll be pleased when I'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

I am interested only in stretching myself, on living as fully as I can.

The older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.