We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

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...

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.