There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.