Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.